The Liberation - Couverture souple

Furnivall, Kate

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ISBN 10 : 1471155560 ISBN 13 : 9781471155567

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2016

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Kate Furnivall was raised in Penarth, a small seaside town in Wales. Her mother, whose own childhood was spent in Russia, China and India, discovered at an early age that the world around us is so volatile, that the only things of true value are those inside your head and your heart. These values Kate explores in The Russian Concubine. Kate went to London University where she studied English and from there she went into publishing, writing material for a series of books on the canals of Britain. Then into advertising where she met her future husband, Norman. She travelled widely, giving her an insight into how different cultures function which was to prove invaluable when writing The Russian Concubine. It was when her mother died in 2000 that Kate decided to write a book inspired by her mother's story. The Russian Concubine contains fictional characters and events, but Kate made use of the extraordinary situation that was her mother's childhood experience - that of two White Russian refugees, a mother and daughter, stuck without money or papers in an International Settlement in China.

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Italy, 1945: as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated cities, its population fights each other to survive. Early one morning, among the ruins of the bombed Naples streets, Caterina is forced to go to extreme lengths to protect her family and in doing so forges a future very different to the one she expected. But will the secrets of her family's past be her downfall?

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