Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever: Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed an unimagined boundary, and Briony will have committed a crime for which…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 287) Аннотация: The literary event of the summer: a new novel from Ian McEwan, as surprising as it is masterful. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Berlín, 1955, en plena guerra fría. Leonard, un joven técnico en comunicaciones — inglés, virgen y escasamente mundano, es enviado a trabajar en un proyecto conjunto de los servicios de inteligencia británicos y americanos, la «Operación Oro». Tras una breve exploración de los kafkianos vericuetos de la vida berlinesa, Leonard descubre la naturaleza del…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper «The Judge.» Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too,…