A story of infidelity, secrets and murder in a small Irish island community, inspired by Marconi's experiments in wireless telegraphy in the late nineteenth century.
Bernie McGill Bücher
Bernie McGill fängt meisterhaft die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und die Geheimnisse der Geschichte ein. Ihre Prosa wird für ihre lyrische Qualität, atmosphärische Tiefe und aufschlussreiche Erforschung der menschlichen Psyche gefeiert. Durch fesselnde Erzählungen taucht sie in Themen wie Erinnerung, Identität und die Spannung zwischen Tradition und Moderne ein. Ihre Werke laden die Leser in reich gestaltete Welten ein, in denen sich Vergangenheit und Gegenwart verflechten und Emotionen mit bemerkenswerter Klarheit dargestellt werden.
Bernie McGill’s award-winning stories have been widely praised for their emotional depth and lyrical language.She is a writer of profound sensitivity and observation whose masterful deployment of linguistic precision and economy enables her to plumb the depths of human experience while neatly avoiding sentimentalism.This new collection, the first since 2013, contains unpublished stories along with a number of previously published stories contained within award winning anthologies.
The Butterfly Cabinet
- 375 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
An unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era. When Anna, the young woman she cared for as a child, announces her intention to visit the elderly Maddie, Maddie recognises her last chance to unburden herself of a story that has gnawed at her for sixty years. For Maddie, rather like the butterfly cabinet she keeps safely under lock and key, has for too long guarded a secret: that of the day a four-year-old girl died at the big house where she worked as a nanny. Finally, Maddie knows, Anna is ready to hear what happened. As Maddie's mind drifts back through the years, so too is revealed the story of Charlotte's mother, Harriet Ormond. A proud, uncompromising woman, Harriet's great passion is collecting butterflies and pinning them under glass; motherhood comes no easier to her than her role as mistress of her remote Irish estate. When her daughter dies, her community is quick to judge her, and Harriet will not stoop to defend herself. But her journals reveal a more complex truth.
