Anna Hope

Albion (eBook, ePUB)

From the bestselling author of Expectation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION

'A superb, deftly woven novel ... Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe

The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home - twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone - to bury Philip, the head of the family - the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember.

Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where under the influence of psychedelic drugs a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing and are set on a collision course with the other.

Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and only hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage.

And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they've built their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405966740
• Artikelnr.: 72250868

Autorenporträt

ANNA HOPE is the internationally prizewinning and bestselling author of Wake, The Ballroom, Expectation and The White Rock. She studied at Oxford University and RADA and her novels have been translated into over 20 languages. Expectation is currently being adapted for the screen by Clemence Poesy and Haut et Court films in Paris. She lives in Sussex with her family.

Rezensionen

"Anna Hope's beautiful new novel Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender." - Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace

"A superb deftly woven novel . . . Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama." - Jonathan Coe, author of Mr. Wilder & Me

"The English country house novel re-imagined for our times: an exceptionally well-drawn portrait of a battling family, which also astutely wrestles with the issues around rewilding, inheritance, and colonialism." - Claire Fuller, author of The Memory of Animals and Unsettled Ground

"A book that asks important questions about legacy-familial, historical and global-and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose." - Elizabeth Day, author of Friendaholic and Magpie

"A compassionate, immersive novel that intelligently navigates historical pride and guilt, and the echo of history that resonates powerfully through the lives of Anna Hope's compelling contemporary characters. Albion balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we might become." - Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men

"Devastatingly perceptive and emotionally wise." - The Guardian on Expectation

"Expectation by Anna Hope brings to vivid life that particular tension one feels just before middle age, when it begins to become clear that life won't end up looking exactly the way we thought it would. The female friendships here are ones we'll all recognize, and in seeing myself in each of these women - their good moments and their bad - I felt implicated in their stories, and in this book. It's an outstanding novel." - Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, on Expectation

"A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism, and thwarted ambition." - Pandora Sykes