Anna Hope is an English writer whose literary works are marked by a powerful emotional charge and a deep insight into the human psyche. In her creations, she often explores themes of memory, loss, and the search for identity, with her style often described as poetic yet rawly honest. Hope skillfully interweaves historical settings with intimate character stories, crafting works that resonate with readers on multiple levels. Her talent lies in her ability to portray complex female characters and their inner worlds with exceptional sensitivity and precision.
A heart-breaking historical tale of love and hope set at the end of the Great War. 'Hopeâe(tm)s unblinking prose is reminiscent of Vera Brittainâe(tm)s classic memoir Testament of Youth' - New York Times Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three womenâe(tm)s lives: Hettie whose wounded brother wonâe(tm)t speak; Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover; and Ada, who has never received an official letter about her sonâe(tm)s death, and is still waiting for him to come home. As the mystery that binds them begins to unravel, far away, in the fields of France, the Unknown Soldier embarks on his journey home. The mood of the nation is turning towards the future âe" but can these three women ever let go of the past?
Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to her door. He carries with him a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and will both mend and tear their hearts. A portrait of three intertwining lives caught at the faultline between empire and modernity, Wake captures the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of the nation changed for ever.
'Anna Hope has a way of getting inside difficult and painful moments, turning them inside out. I felt I knew these women as my own friends. Taut, electric, complex, funny' RACHEL JOYCE, author of The Unexpected Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 'Few novels leave me genuinely breathless with their brilliance. EXPECTATION is one of them' HANNAH BECKERMAN ********** Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends. Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question- what does it take to lead a meaningful life? EXPECTATION is a novel of the highs and lows of friendship - how it can dip, dive and rise again. It is also about finding your way- as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel. Most of all, it explores that liminal space between expectation and reality, the place - full of dreams, desires and pain - in which we all live our lives. 'SO GOOD. A 'What they did next' story of characters from a Sally Rooney novel' SARAH FRANKLIN 'An intimate and touching portrayal of female friendship that shows it's okay to just be' NINA POTTELL 'I tore through EXPECTATION at the weekend. Exceptional, gorgeously written, and reads like a love letter to London. I highly recommend it' STACEY HALLS, bestselling author of The Familiars 'Jaw-droppingly good' SARRA MANNING 'Like Normal People but about female friendship rather than a romantic relationship. It is AWESOME' ERIN KELLY
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AUTUMN 2016 'Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I've ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife 'Compelling, elegant and insightful' Observer 'Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreaking' Sunday Express 5/5 'Moving, fascinating' Times 'A tender and absorbing love story' Daily Mail 'Unsentimental and affecting' Sunday Times 'Exquisitely good' Metro 1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet It is a dance that will change two lives forever. Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM is a historical love story. It tells a page-turning tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.
The story unfolds during the Brookes family's gathering to bury Philip, the patriarch whose legacy shapes their lives. Frannie dreams of rewilding their estate amidst climate concerns, while Milo envisions a utopian retreat for the wealthy. Isa, the estranged daughter, seeks closure with her childhood love, and Grace contemplates her long-suffering marriage. The arrival of Clara from America introduces secrets that threaten to unravel their carefully constructed dreams, revealing the complexities of family ties and personal aspirations.
Set in 1920, "Remembrance Day" follows the intertwined lives of three women connected by a wartime secret. Hettie, Evelyn, and Ada grapple with grief and hope as the mystery of their pasts unfolds alongside the Unknown Soldier's journey home. Can they move forward as the nation looks to the future?
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BALLROOM AND EXPECTATIONThey are
separating, she and her husband, after two decades together.This fact is
new.There are many ways of telling the tale ...There are many different sides
to every story ... A minibus journeys through rural Mexico. Inside it are
twelve strangers on a pilgrimage to the White Rock, which stands, ancient and
sacred, off the Pacific coast. Like many before them, over centuries and from
across continents, they find themselves irresistibly drawn here, for answers,
to give thanks, to seek protection.One of them is a writer. She is travelling
with her husband and young daughter, as her faith in her marriage, and the
future itself, is foundering. She has come to the White Rock in the hope of
excavating a beginning from the rubble of many different endings.Here she will
find the echoes of many stories: of conquest and resistance, of betrayal and
belief, of the many different forms of violence and love. Stories that have
already unravelled, and stories that might yet illuminate a passage through
these uncertain times ...'An eco-novel you actually want to read' ? The
Times'Its narrative sweep is capacious . . . It has ambition to match, musing
on freedom and reciprocity [and] the redemptive power of storytelling.
Impressive' Observer'Deeply moving' The i
The White Rock stands, ancient and sacred, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Four people, across four centuries, each navigating ruptures to the world they know, are irresistibly drawn to it. 2020: A British writer travels with her husband to give thanks for the birth of their child. 1969: An American rock star runs from the law in the final act of his self-destruction.1907: A Yoeme girl is torn from her homeland and taken by force to the coast.1775: A Spanish naval officer prepares to set sail to continue the conquest of the Pacific coast.
Fünf Tage im November 1920. Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte werden die Überreste eines Unbekannten Soldaten bestattet und nach London gebracht. Währenddessen versuchen drei Frauen mit ihrer eigenen Trauer fertig zu werden: Adas Sohn ist im Krieg verschollen. Sie ist überzeugt, dass er noch lebt. Lady Evelyn betrauert den Tod ihres Geliebten, ein Neuanfang ist für sie undenkbar. Die junge Hettie ist im glamourösen «Palais» für einen Sixpence als Tanzpartnerin zu mieten. Sie träumt davon, sich zu verlieben und dem tristen Leben zu entfliehen. Drei Frauenschicksale, auf dramatische Weise miteinander verknüpft ... Ein mitreißender Roman über die Folgen des Krieges und den Beginn einer neuen Zeit.
In Anna Hopes neuem Roman sind vier Menschen aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten schicksalhaft verbunden. Eine Schriftstellerin, ein Rocksänger, ein indigenes Mädchen und ein spanischer Leutnant erleben, wie ein heiliger Fels vor der Küste Mexikos ihr Leben entscheidend verändert.
