THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Book ID/图书代码： 05380013B64370
English Summary/英文概要： Each month, sixty-something best friends Claudia, Sal, Ella and Laura meet for drinks, celebrating 45 years of friendship.
A truthful, funny and inspiring novel that asks hard questions about what the world offers women as they get older, and finds funny, sad and joyously uplifting answers in the different way the friends celebrate their coming of age.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 每个月，一群年过六旬的故友克劳迪娅、萨勒、艾拉和劳拉都会相聚小酌，庆祝她们长达45年之久的友情。在这部真挚、风趣同时极具启发性的小说作品中，作者将提及诸多有关于"当女性们年华逝去，世界回馈给了她们什么"等令人难以回答的难题；此外，对于这群故友庆祝年岁渐增之举，作者更是另辟蹊径，向我们提供了诸多或是风趣，或是悲伤，抑或是喜悦到振奋人心的解读。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：In 1991, Maeve Haran scored a bestseller with Having It All, one of the first novels to acknowledge the problems of juggling a career and motherhood. Here she seems likely to strike a similar chord with the over-60s . . . Haran is far too skilled a story-teller for the book to read like an exercise in box-ticking. The characters’ own liveliness is reflected in a warm and often funny page-turner that strikes just the right balance between melancholy and defiance (James Walton, Readers Digest)
Maeve Haran,sixty-something and author of the ground breaking 1990s blockbuster Having It All has joined the party with this delightful take on the enduring power of female friendship. If 60 is the new 40 then this is the new chicklit . . . a funny, feisty novel (The Daily Express, Caroline Jowett) Lively (Sainsbury’s Magazine)
About the Author/作者介绍： 玫芙•哈兰毕业于牛津大学法学院，曾担任电视制作人，著有11部当代小说作品，其中包括闻名世界的畅销小说作品《应有尽有》（ HAVING IT ALL），该书在全世界范围内出版发行，并曾被译为26种语言，其作品《卡布奇诺上的泡沫》同样唤醒了人们去关注生命中最微小的珍宝。
直至第二个孩子的降临，玫芙才开始从事创作，并同时从事记者和短篇故事的创作。作者现与其担任苏格兰电视导演的丈夫及三个孩子居住在伦敦北部，他们在苏塞克斯郡拥有一座小木屋。玫芙在女子寄宿学校就读时便极度沉迷于玄学派诗人约翰•多恩，这一浓厚的兴趣后来影响了她的一生，并启发她创作了其第一部历史小说《女子与诗人》，该书于2009年出版。
玫芙的最新小说《画笔下的女人》已于2011年6月问世；故事背景被设定在1666年伦敦爆发大瘟疫和伦敦大火时期。《画笔下的女人》鲜活地再现了查理二世时期颓废宫廷里的鲜活之气，以及法国的斯图尔特是如何发现了一名正欲为命运而战的斗志昂扬的女性。
Maeve Haran, an Oxford law graduate and former TV producer, has written eleven contemporary novels, including the worldwide bestseller HAVING IT ALL, which has sold round the world and been translated into twenty-six languages, as well as THE FROTH ON THE CAPPUCCINO, evoking life’s small pleasures.
She took up writing after the birth of her second child and combines it with journalism and writing short stories. She lives in north London with her Scottish TV executive husband and their three children and has a cottage in the Sussex downs.
She became obsessed with John Donne, the metaphysical poet, while at her convent boarding school, and it is this lifelong passion which has inspired and informed her first historical novel, THE LADY AND THE POET, published in 2009.
Her latest novel, THE PAINTED LADY, was published in June 2011; set against the drama of the Great Plague and the Fire of London, THE PAINTED LADY brings to life the vibrant and decadent court of Charles II, and in Frances Stuart discovers a passionate young woman prepared to fight for her own destiny.
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