夜愁 上

by Sarah Waters, サラ・ウォーターズ, 中村 有希 (翻訳)

1947年、ロンドン。第二次世界大戦の爪痕が残る街で生きるケイ、ジュリアとその同居人のヘレン、ヴィヴとダンカンの姉弟たち。戦争を通じて巡り合った人々は、毎日をしぶとく生きていた。そんな彼女たちが積み重ねてきた歳月を、夜は容赦なく引きはがす。想いは過去へとさかのぼり、隠された真実や心の傷をさらけ出す。ウォーターズが贈るめくるめく物語。ブッカー賞最終候補作。

348 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2007

About the author

Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.

Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete.