Lily: A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Lily: A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Lily: A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Marianne, being 15 and wildly enamoured with a distant teenaged Simon is affectionately driven to distraction hoping to “ascend to heaven together in the pale blue Morris Minor”

Tremain's latest novel more than lives up to its atmospheric, riveting beginning... It's consummate storytelling, and finds room for redemption as well as revenge Hephzibah Anderson, Mail on Sunday After six years, she was returned to the Foundling Hospital where she had been cared for as a baby, that was the law, that she be returned to their care after the six years were up. The parting, when it came was heartbreaking for all concerned. I see there is some criticism of the switching timelines. However, I feel added to the story as it unravelled slowly and served an important purpose in strengthening the connection between the past and present, as well as building empathy for the protagonist as we see her childhood.

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Tremain újabb letehetetlen alkotása a viktoriánus Londonba vezet, ahol a bátor Lily alakja kel életre a regény lapjain.” – Good Housekeeping

As with other novels by Rose Tremain, her writing pulled me right into the story, and left me thinking about long after I'd finished reading. It is Marianne who tells this piercing story of first love, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, whilst her smart, ironic narration tellingly reveals so much more. Finding her way in 1960s Chelsea, and supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella, she continues to seek the life she never stops craving. And in Paris, beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst continues to nurse the secret which will alter everything. Meglepő, kicsit kíméletlen írás ez. A vége nyitott, mint egy szélesre tárt ablak. Nem minden regénynek van feltétlenül szüksége konkrét lezárásra. Van, amikor jobb a szívnek, ha engedik álmodozni. Ha meghagyják neki a reményt, legyen az mégoly hiú is. This is a terrific story, rich and many layered. Heart rending as it often is, it’s also warm, witty and funny. A total treat of a read. Engem beszippantott a regény, egyetlen nap alatt végig is olvastam. Együtt szomorkodtam, féltem, dühöngtem Lilyvel és szurkoltam neki, hogy az élete jóra forduljon. Igazi érzelmi hullámvasút. Lily titkát már az első oldalakon megismerjük, de a szerző sokáig várat minket a körülmények megismerésével. És persze, mind tisztában vagyunk vele, hogy egy gyilkosság nem lehet megoldás, de mégsem voltam képes elítélni Lilyt a tettéért. Nem Lily választotta ezt az életet, mégis lehetőségeihez mérten próbálta kihozni magából a maximumot. Az árvaházból kikerülve a legtöbb kölyök bűzözőnek, prostiuáltnak áll. Ehhez képes ez a fiatal lány egy reménytelibb úton járt. Ismét beszippantott Rose Tremain a történetével, és már most kíváncsian várom hova kalauzol el minket legközelebbi regényében.You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital. Lily is fostered by an affectionate farming family in rural Suffolk, enjoying a brief childhood idyll before she is returned to the Hospital, where she is punished for her rebellious spirit. Released into the harsh world of Victorian London, Lily becomes a favoured employee at Belle Prettywood's Wig Emporium, but all the while she is hiding a dreadful secret... Lily is a novel in an historical setting, but Rose Tremain resists the label ‘historical novel’. ‘When you write about history, you can write anybody’s story,’ she says. ‘There isn’t this question of authenticity.’ The old London in which Lily lives and works is, however, realistically portrayed and the Thomas Coram Foundling Hospital did exist. Its founder and governors were kindly, god-fearing men; and wealthy women, like Lily’s benefactress, Lady Elizabeth Mortimer, helped to support such benevolent institutions. Not everyone who works in such places, however, is as good-hearted as their founders, and harsh punishment and cruelty, then as now, were not uncommon. a b c d e f g "Tremain, Dame Rose, (born 2 Aug. 1943), novelist and playwright". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38001. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4 . Retrieved 2 August 2021. At the heart of this novel, then, is a taut and quietly furious moral drama that sits uneasily amid its more frivolous trappings. Indeed, it seems in the end to be striving to shake them off. Lily leaves her employer, a flamboyant wigmaker who moonlights as a courtesan. In a moment of crisis, she seeks out the kindly constable who once saved her. Now a married superintendent, he responds by making a humid declaration of love; another shabby figure from the stagy romp to which Lily herself no longer belongs.

Váratlanul ért Rose Tremain stílusa. A könyvtárunkban annak idején nagyot ment a „Gustáv- szonáta” meg a „Zene és csend”, de én valahogy a „Lily”-re figyeltem fel. A borító nem tetszik különösebben. Nagyjából értem mit fejez ki, és hogy miért ilyen, de mégis, valahogy sokkal letisztultabbak a korábbi Tremain fedlapok. A címe sem különös, és a szedése is nagyon levegős. Mindezekből kiindulva sokkal inkább egy történelmi romantikus zsánerhez közel álló szépirodalmi műre számítottam, mint erre a történetre. A nyelvezet egészen lágy, kellemes zenéje van. Okosan machinál a hosszú, összetett és a lényegre törő pár szavas mondatokkal. Erős képi világa élénken, mégis szinte tárgyilagosan vetíti ki a szemhéjunk vásznára a különös, olykor tündérmesébe, olykor horrorba hajló jelenetek sorát. Magával ragadó ez a furcsa, rettenetes, a nosztalgia édes fájdalmával átitatott hangulat, amely belengi az egész regényt.Another engrossing and memorable novel by Rose Tremain, Lily is the story of an abandoned Coram Foundling Hospital baby who is fostered by a loving farming family in Suffolk until she is six years old. The law dictates that, after this time, she must return to the orphanage to learn humility, duty and gratitude despite a daily dose of punishment, abuse and humiliation. But no. She is forced to run away from her love to Rookery Farm where her foster father is dead, 2 of the 3 brothers have left and Nellie the foster mother who is the most beloved to her has dementia of some sort (although she does remember Lily and we see she was sad to let her go). Then it ends with her thinking if the police come after her (Sam Trench the person she loves being the head detective if they arrive) then she would drop herself in a dark well. It is clear that Lily is angry with the mother who abandoned her, and when she finds Frances Quale, a strange, reclusive woman who sells religious icons and false relics, she believes she has found her mother and sets out to prove it and vent her anger. She also harbours deep anger for the nurse who treated her cruelly from the time she returned to the Foundling Hospital after spending her first six years fostered by a kind and loving farming family. It's an interesting story that does immerse you into Victorian Life, be it in the lovely Suffolk countryside, the dirty streets of London, or the awful Foundling Hospital.

Sam is now a police superintendent, known for his skill in solving difficult murder cases. The more Lily sees of him, the more she knows she is in danger of confessing to him. Sam’s wife, too, brings up the murder which haunts Lily:

Lively and emotional ... Not many novelists of this calibre are so easy to read and hard to put down' Sunday Times A regény főszereplője Lily tulajdonképpen mindent megtapasztalt, amit egy hat-nyolcéves gyereknek nem szabadna. Már kisbaba korában árvaságra jut, éhezik, fázik verik, erőszakoskodnak vele. A legrosszabb azonban nem ez, hanem a mindenbe beleivódott, mindent átható magány. Ahogy ez a kislány sorba veszíti el a kötődéseit sokkal fájdalmasabb, mint a testi fenyítés, vagy fizikai munka. Egészen döbbenetes módjai vannak az elhagyatottságnak. Leginkább talán a barátnője elvesztése rázott meg, de tulajdonképpen az egyedüllét keresztjét az utolsó pillanatig hordozza Lily.



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