60 POSTCARDS: THE INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN’S JOURNEY TO CELEBRATE HER MOTHER, ONE POSTCARD AT A TIME
Book ID/图书代码： 12290014B67018
English Summary/英文概要： The heartfelt and uplifting story of how a project to scatter 60 Postcards in memory of her mother helped a young girl come to terms with her loss.
On 11 February 2012 Rachael Chadwick lost her Mother to cancer, just sixteen days after first being diagnosed, and her world shattered right in front of her. Utterly fed up of the milestones and reminders, in December of that year she decided she would do something different and created a project based around her Mum’s approaching 60th Birthday. Desperate to spread the word about the wonderful person she had lost, Rachael had the brainwave of leaving notes around a city in her memory. Deciding she would take it a step further she wondered what would happen if she could ask people to respond to her? Full of hope and energy she hand-wrote sixty postcards, each with her email address at the bottom asking the finder to get in touch. But one question remained, where should she go?
Knowing how much she longed to visit Paris, the last gift that Rachael’s mum had given her was Eurostar vouchers, and so it seemed fitting that this would be her chosen city. So off she went with a group of friends to celebrate, discover, and to scatter her memories. Filling their time in Paris with sight-seeing, food and drink, laughter, and of course postcards.
When Rachael returned to her London home, she desperately tried to switch off, switch off from the wondering (and hoping) whether she might actually hear from a postcard finder. And then, they started flowing in…
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个真挚而又振奋人心的故事。一位年轻的女孩散发了60张纪念母亲的明信片，借此抚平了失去母亲的伤痛。2012年2月11日，初步诊断结果出来才16天，癌症就夺走了Rachael Chadwick的母亲。她的世界也轰然破碎。厌倦了习惯性纪念活动的她于那年12月决定作出改变，围绕着她母亲即将到来的60岁生日开展一个活动。Rachael极度渴望向别人诉说她这位了不起的母亲。她突发奇想计划在她记忆中的城市里留下一些记录。后来她决定跨出更大一步，她想请求人们给她回复。这会带来什么呢？满怀希望的她以充沛的精力亲手填写了60张明信片，每张明信片底部留有她的电子邮箱地址，希望拾到明信片的人能联系她。现在只剩一个问题了：她应该去哪个城市？
Rachael知道自己有多渴望去巴黎参观，而且她母亲最后送给她的礼物是“欧洲之星”列车优惠券，所以巴黎就理所当然地成为她的首选城市了。于是她与一群朋友一起前往巴黎，举行纪念庆祝活动，探寻母亲的足迹，并撒播她对母亲的回忆。他们在巴黎参观，享受美食，旅途充满了欢声笑语，当然也不忘散发明信片。
回到伦敦后Rachael试图放下这一切，不再猜想她能否收到拾到明信片的人的回信。而这时，回信纷至沓来......(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：It is very rare for me to read a book as quickly as I have done so with this beautiful piece of writing. From the moment you begin to read the book you feel like you have always been friends with Rachel Chadwick. Her style of writing is wonderfully warm and personal. The book is a triumph and whilst nothing can ever bring back a lost loved one, to come up with scattering postcards around Paris to celebrate the life of her mother was inspired and makes for a truly wonderful read. Having lost a parent myself I found myself connected to the section on her mother’s illness on many levels and the way the books deals with death and bereavement is both touching and moving. The stories of what happens with the postcards is heart warming and wonderful and I cannot recommend strongly enough for you to read this book and find out what happens for yourself
About the Author/作者介绍： Rachael Chadwick, 29, was born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset. She is an English Language graduate from Cardiff University who now lives and works in London. 60 POSTCARDS is her first book.
Format:照片
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
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