Amanda Hodgkinson crafts narratives that delve into the intricate complexities of human relationships and the burdens of the past. Her writing, noted for its beautiful prose, explores the messy inheritances of life, transforming them into something meaningful and shining. She possesses a distinctive ability to refract reality, creating resonant stories that explore the challenges and beauty of our inherited circumstances. Hodgkinson's work invites readers into a deeply emotional and philosophical exploration of the human condition.
Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish on their doorstep and a travelling man who will change them forever.
Paperback. 13,50 / 21,00 cm. In Turkish. 451 p.
In war we sometimes lose ourselves . . . It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are assured, he has made them a home in Ipswich. However, after living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost. While Janusz, a Polish soldier who has criss-crossed Europe during the war, hopes his family will help put his own dark past behind him. But the war and the years apart will always haunt each of them unless they together confront what they were compelled to do to survive.