Margaret Forster

A könyv gerince megtört, a könyvtest kissé deformált. Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Now almost thirty, Isamay is trying to...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Now almost thirty, Isamay is trying to write a thesis about grandmothers in history but is instead...

Margaret Forster, in this engaging, intriguing novel, about a young woman and two grandmothers, uncovers the shocking truths that family history reveals. The curiously named Isamay, a would-be academic, is trying to write a coherent thesis about grandmothers in history - from Sarah Bernhardt...

Prolog 7 ¦ weiter Weihnachtstag, 1869. Hoher Schnee liegt auf der Erde, auf dem Dach der Kathedrale, auf Iden breiten Wällen der Burg. Seit Tagen hatte ein bitterkalter Ostwind von den Pennines über die Ebene Eden hinweggefegt und das heftig gestiegene Wasser des Flusses Caldew aufgewühlt,...