WHISPERS THROUGH A MEGAPHONE: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12100014B73190
English Summary/英文概要： Miriam Delaney lives in the shadow of her dead mother. She is 35, has not left the house for three years and cannot speak above a whisper. But one August day she has enough. She walks to the local woods to confront her fears... and meets Ralph Swoon.
Ralph is a psychotherapist with 16 year old twin sons and a wife he loves dearly. Except, she doesn’t love him, something he finally grasps on the night of his 37th birthday. He flees his birthday party (and reality)... and encounters Miriam.
WHISPERS THROUGH A MEGAPHONE is a love story (but not the one you might expect) brimming with second chances. It’s about losing what we never had and finding what was there all along, and accepting that to keep calm and carry on is sometimes the worst thing you can do.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 米里亚姆•德莱尼一直生活在逝去母亲的阴影中。她如今年届35岁，有三年没有迈出房子半步，只能低声耳语。 但八月的一天，她觉得自己已经受够了这压抑的一切。 她步行走到当地的森林，直面心中的那份恐惧。 而在那时她遇见了拉尔夫•斯沃。
拉尔夫是一位有着16年资深经验的心理治疗师，膝下有着一对双胞胎儿子他深爱着自己的妻子。除了，
妻子无法给予他同等的爱，在自己37岁生日那天，他终于深深领会到了这些。溜出了当天的生日宴会… 而
和米里亚姆不期而遇。
《扩音器低语》是一部爱情故事（但有不是你所想的那种类型），这个故事透露出，人生道路上的难得一见的转机。这是关于我们如何发现自己人生中所谓的若有所失，以及如何去找回自己从未失去过的，还有如何平静地接受，自己生活中那些有时的不幸，继续迈向人生旅程的一个故事。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：‘In her assured debut, which was longlisted for the Baileys prize, Rachel Elliott’s talent for capturing the revealing quirk in each of her troubled characters reflects her training as a psychotherapist’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/05/whispers-through-megaphone-rachel-elliott-review
“Murmures dans un mégaphone est un livre doté d’un superpouvoir : celui de transformer la mélancolie en fantaisie, la part sombre de chacun en tendre folie … Ralliant la cause des doux dingues, dans les pas d’Aimee Bender ou de Michel Gondry, la romancière Rachel Elliott l’affirme haut et fort : l’humour et la rêverie peuvent changer nos vies, et peut-être le monde.” Le Figaro
(“Whispers Through a Megaphone has a superpower: that of turning melancholy into fantasy, and one’s dark side into quirkiness … Following the steps of Aimee Bender and Michel Gondry, Rachel Elliott’s novel is a celebration of quiet, eccentric souls and says it loud and clear: humour and reverie can change our lives and even perhaps the world.”)
“Finesse psychologique, charme du style, on pense à Anna Gavalda dont Rachel Elliott possède également le sens de l’humour tendre et décalé. Parce que oui, ils sont drôles, ces doux dingues, dans leurs idées fixes, leurs doutes et leurs errances … Rachel Elliott, psychothérapeute, sait percer la vérité des êtres … elle a un talent fou” Alix Girod de l’Ain, Elle
(“Psychological subtlety, charming style, we can’t help but be reminded of Anna Gavalda, whose tender and quirky humour can also be found in Rachel Elliott’s writing. The characters Rachel Elliott depicts are funny and quiet eccentric souls with their fixed beliefs, their doubts and their wanderings… Rachel Elliott is a psychotherapist and knows how to see through humans… she is deeply talented”)
this great review of WHISPERS which appeared in Le Monde today:
http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2016/06/30/les-breves-critiques-du-monde-des-livres_4961036_3260.html
The verdict is: ‘Rachel Elliott’s debut novel delicately blends darkness and fantasy, and it’s delicious.’
About the Author/作者介绍： Rachel Elliott is a writer and psychotherapist.
She has worked in arts and technology
journalism and her writing has featured in a
variety of publications, from digital arts
magazines to the French Literary Review. She
was a finalist in the Dundee International Book
Prize and shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel
Competition, the Fish Short Story Prize and
Glimmer Train‟s Short Story Award for New
Writers in the US. Rachel was born in Suffolk,
grew up in Norfolk and the Midlands, and now
lives in Bath.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：German rights to Kein & Aber, French rights to Payot Rivages and Spanish rights to Alba Editorial. Penguin Random House acquired Australian and New Zealand rights at auction during the Frankfurt book fair.
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