HELLO FROM THE GILLESPIES
Book ID/图书代码： 03540014B73499
English Summary/英文概要： International number one bestseller Monica McInerney brings us a sparkling and hilarious new novel about the ups and downs of family life.
For the last thirty years, Angela Gillespie’s annual Christmas letter has been full of her family’s triumphs. But this year Angela surprises everyone, including herself - she tells the truth.
Angela’s husband is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Her grown-up daughters are more out of control than ever. And her youngest child spends all of his time talking to an imaginary friend. With fantasy thoughts of a life before marriage and motherhood becoming more than just an innocent daydream, Angela’s real life is slowly slipping out of focus.
But, as the repercussions of her ruthlessly honest letter begin to pile up, a shocking event takes Angela from her family, and she realises she should have been more careful of what she wished for. . .
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在过去的三十三年时间里， Angela Gillespie为世界范围内家人和朋友，在年关寄送了题为“来自Gillespies的问候”的信件， 这些信件总是充满着欢乐和愉悦的好消息。 今年， Angela惊奇发现自己在述说着真相….
Gillespies的这些信件，来自一个遥远的完美家庭，而信中的这些故事均来自Angela笔下。 她的丈夫一直无法适应退休生活。 她的三十二岁的孪生姐妹的事业正面临着严重的危机。 她的第三个女儿，因债台高筑，而哭嚎。 而她的十岁大的儿子却宁愿和自己臆想的朋友说话。
这个家如果没有Angela，这个家就彻底完了。但当Angela以一种意想不到的方式将这些坏的解除时，而Gillespies一家，却能以一种奇妙的方式，全新凝聚在一起。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：A wonderful review from the huge US website oprah.com. (they get nearly 2.5 million unique visitors a month). HELLO FROM THE GILLESPIES is included in the story titled “3 Books to Take on Flight (and 13 More to Devour),” they call HELLO FROM THE GILLESPIES “laugh-inducing— and refreshingly honest”.
About the Author/作者介绍： 莫妮卡出生于南澳克雷儿谷(Clare Valley, South Australia)，父亲为火车站长，家中有六个兄弟姊妹，曾经在儿童节目、艺廊、音乐工作室、公关公司及出版社任职过，目前所出版的五部作品：A Taste for It, Upside Down Inside Out, Spin the Bottle, The Alphabet Sisters及Family Baggage都被翻译成多国语言出版及畅销。2006年时更以短篇小说(Odd One Out)荣获澳洲政府设立的Books Alive阅读俱乐部所颁赠的形象大使。http://www.booksalive.com.au/Praise for Monica McInereny:
’You’ll be laughing out loud one minute and crying the next’ Cosmopolitan
’McInerney is an expert in portraying the nuances and complications of family life’ Red
Australian-born Dublin-based Monica McInerney is the author of the best-selling novels At Home with the Templetons, Those Faraday Girls, Family Baggage, The Alphabet Sisters, Spin the Bottle, Upside Down Inside Out and A Taste for It, and a short story collection All Together Now, published internationally and in translation. Her articles and short stories have appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies in Australia, the UK and Ireland.
At Home with the Templetons was a number 1 best-seller in Australia and was shortlisted for the General Fiction Book of the Year at the 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards and for the Eason Popular Fiction Award in the 2010 Irish Book Awards. Those Faraday Girls won the General Fiction Book of the Year at the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards. All Together Now was shortlisted in the same category in the 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards.
In 2006, Monica was the main ambassador for the Australian Government’s Books Alive national reading campaign, for which she wrote a limited edition novella called Odd One Out.
Monica grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley wine region of South Australia, where her father was the railway stationmaster and her mother worked in the local library. Since then Monica has lived all around Australia (in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart) in Ireland (in County Meath and Dublin) and in London and also travelled widely.
For the past twenty years she and her Irish husband have been moving back and forth between Australia and Ireland. They currently live in Dublin.
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