This Could be Everything: the feelgood new novel from the author of The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Autor Eva Riceen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 feb 2023
Ce se întâmplă atunci când viața se oprește brusc la vârsta de nouăsprezece ani, în timp ce lumea din jur pulsează de o energie nouă? Observăm în This Could be Everything o explorare tandră a acestui contrast: suntem în Notting Hill, în anul 1990, o perioadă a optimismului cultural, însă protagonista noastră, February Kingdom, este prizoniera unei tăceri provocate de o tragedie familială. Premisa este pe cât de simplă, pe atât de poetică – recuperarea speranței începe nu prin gesturi grandioase, ci prin îngrijirea unui canar galben care apare misterios în bucătăria ei. Subliniem modul în care Eva Rice reușește să transforme decorul urban al Londrei de dinaintea erei digitale într-un personaj vibrant, unde muzica din Top 40 și afișele cu filmul Pretty Woman devin puncte de ancorare pentru o identitate fărâmițată. Stilul este unul contemplativ, dar plin de o căldură subtilă, amintind de forța narativă a lui Matson Taylor în The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, dar cu o sensibilitate aparte pentru melancolie și detaliu istoric. Dacă în The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets autoarea ne purta prin eleganța anilor '50, aici ea rafinează aceeași fascinație pentru perioadele de tranziție, oferind o perspectivă matură asupra modului în care doliul și prima iubire se pot întrepătrunde. Această lucrare se distanțează de alte titluri contemporane prin refuzul de a grăbi procesul de vindecare, preferând un ritm așezat, aproape terapeutic, care onorează complexitatea emoțiilor umane.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1398510165
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o poveste despre regăsire, ancorată într-o nostalgie autentică a anilor '90. Cititorul va câștiga o experiență de lectură reconfortantă, ce funcționează ca un balsam emoțional, explorând legătura dintre responsabilitatea față de o altă ființă și propria vindecare. Este o alegere ideală pentru fanii prozei britanice care prețuiesc detaliile de epocă și portretele psihologice nuanțate.
Despre autor
Eva Rice este o scriitoare britanică stabilită la Londra, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a evoca epoci trecute cu o precizie emoțională remarcabilă. Succesul său internațional a fost consolidat de romanul The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, care a fost finalist la British Book Awards și a devenit un punct de referință în ficțiunea contemporană. Cu o bibliografie ce include titluri precum The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp și Love Notes for Freddie, Rice s-a specializat în povești de formare (coming-of-age) care analizează intersecția dintre cultura pop, identitate și legăturile de familie.
Descriere scurtă
From the author of modern classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good novel about hope, love and the powerful bond between sisters.
It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster for a new movie called Pretty Woman.
February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher.
A coming-of-age story with its roots under the pavements of a pre-Richard Curtis-era Notting Hill that has all but vanished. It’s about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring…
PRAISE FOR THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING:
'Every time I have read one of Eva Rice’s books it has felt like a modern classic. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of This Could Be Everything have stayed with me. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket' JOJO MOYES
'You will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Eva’s latest story HAS everything' JILLY COOPER
‘Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You’ VERONICA HENRY
‘This is the book I've been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, it's glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming’ DAISY BUCHANAN
‘I’ve never read such a perfect evocation of the 90s; the music, the fashion, the feel. Nor such a summation of youth and loss and love. This book is wise and tender and dazzling. Rice is just a masterful writer’ LAURA BARTON
‘This moving, hopeful and brilliantly told story inhabits the West London of my youth. I loved it’ BETTY BOO
‘A gorgeous story about first love and hope’ RED
'The story of loss, love - and ultimately hope - is beautifully told. You won't be able to put it down' HEAT
Notă biografică
Eva has toured with bands since her early twenties. She has written the music and lyrics for Harriet a musical based on an early Jilly Cooper novel due to open in 2023. She has a geek-like fascination with pop music, and her party trick is recalling chart positions.
Follow her on twitter @EvaRiceAuthor
Recenzii
‘a moving novel about sisterhood, grief and first love’
'a celebration of hope'
'The story of loss, love - and ultimately hope - is beautifully told. You won't be able to put it down'
‘A reason to be cheerful coming in Feb - THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING by Eva Rice - it's the book I've been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, it's glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming’
‘Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next ONE DAY / ME BEFORE YOU’
‘A beautiful balm of a book full of hope and possibility, THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING will break your heart and piece it back together again with wit, warmth and magic’
‘The most gorgeous feel-good story about love and grief and how the smallest things can start a journey of healing. I loved it’
‘I’ve never read such a perfect evocation of the 90s; the music, the fashion, the feel. Nor such a summation of youth and loss and love. This book is wise and tender and dazzling. Rice is just a masterful writer’
‘This moving, hopeful and brilliantly told story inhabits the West London of my youth. I loved it’
'A beautiful, atmospheric, brilliantly observed thing of joy. Eva Rice is a fantastic observer and relayer of the human experience. Absolutely wonderful'
'Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself in a comfort blanket'
'You will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Eva’s latest story HAS everything''
'I finished it in a breathless emotional gulp. Truly wonderful, incredibly moving. . .funny, witty, wise and superbly written. . . The age beautifully evoked'