Anna Hope

Albion (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 finely crafted, propulsive, and nuanced story of family, inheritance, and accountability that shakes the country house novel to its foundations from the internationally acclaimed author of Expectation.

The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral hometwenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstoneto bury Philip: husband, father, and the blinding sun around which they have orbited their entire lives.

Eldest daughter Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defense against the coming climate catastrophe. Her brother 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, setting them on a collision course with each other.

Isa, Philip's estranged youngest child, only hopes to reconnect with 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.

Beautifully layered and utterly compelling, Anna Hope's multigenerational saga is a bold, brilliant, and deeply contemporary examination of family dynamics, colonial legacies, and class, set against the backdrop of the climate crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063427174
• Artikelnr.: 72284055

Autorenporträt

Anna Hope is the internationally prize-winning and bestselling author of Wake, The Ballroom, Expectation, and The White Rock. She studied at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Sussex with her family.

Rezensionen

"This book, its fascinating characters, steady paced plot, and haunting prose will stay with you long after reading." - Cosmopolitan (UK)

" There are shades of both Succession and Saltburn at play here, with Albion promising more of the emotional acuity that Anna Hope wielded so well in 2019's Expectation." - Independent (UK), "The Best Books to Look out for in 2025"

"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

"Anna Hope plunges us straight into the claustrophobic world of a family turned inside out by the death of the deeply flawed patriarch, and propels us towards a devastating conclusion. Compelling." - Kirsty Wark