Kipling & Trix
Autor Mary Hameren Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2012
Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction
As small children, Rudyard Kipling and his sister Trix lived an enchanted life in India playing with their beloved servants and running around freely. Their innocent happiness came to an abrupt end when they were sent back to England to live with strangers and forced to conform to the strict rules of Edwardian society in an alien country.
Both brother and sister grew up to become writers, although one lived in the shadow of the other's genius. Rudyard Kipling's incredible life is known to many while his poetry and books have been read by millions – but what became of his talented younger sister? Her story, full of love and lies, became a distressing family secret that was hidden from the world...
Mary Hamer has unearthed the truth about Alice Kipling, known to her family affectionately as Trix. In this fictionalised account of their lives, the author goes to the heart of the relationship between a difficult brother and his troubled sister and explores how their early lives shaped the very different people they were later to become.
As small children, Rudyard Kipling and his sister Trix lived an enchanted life in India playing with their beloved servants and running around freely. Their innocent happiness came to an abrupt end when they were sent back to England to live with strangers and forced to conform to the strict rules of Edwardian society in an alien country.
Both brother and sister grew up to become writers, although one lived in the shadow of the other's genius. Rudyard Kipling's incredible life is known to many while his poetry and books have been read by millions – but what became of his talented younger sister? Her story, full of love and lies, became a distressing family secret that was hidden from the world...
Mary Hamer has unearthed the truth about Alice Kipling, known to her family affectionately as Trix. In this fictionalised account of their lives, the author goes to the heart of the relationship between a difficult brother and his troubled sister and explores how their early lives shaped the very different people they were later to become.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781906582340
ISBN-10: 1906582343
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Theatre Communications Group
Colecția Aurora Metro Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1906582343
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Theatre Communications Group
Colecția Aurora Metro Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
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Recenzii
"Although based closely on historical fact, Kipling and Trix is a tour-de-force of imaginative fiction as well as a lyrically written, if often harrowing, tale of surprising passion." - Gina Barreca, Huffington Post
"Intelligent, vividly imagined and a real page-turner. I started it at about 8pm and was so gripped that I went on until 3am... This story at once recognizable and new. Its freshness comes partly from Mary Hamer’s sensitive deployment of Kipling's own words." - Professor Jan Montefiore, Kent University
"Mary Hamer’s imaginative novel draws the unfolding scenes of Rudyard’s and Trix’s lives in an intimate, domestic and conversational style and shows us with delicacy and understatement how their early experiences were to play out... This is immersive storytelling with a real lightness of touch, so that we are drawn with a sense of intimacy into the conversations and thoughts of the characters. The shifts of time and place and the inner narrative of emotion produce a surprising sense of dramatic movement and shape,so that we could indeed be watching the scenes of a play." - Christine Lehman (Soret 1963 English)
"Truly engaging" - The Writes of Women
"Intelligent, vividly imagined and a real page-turner. I started it at about 8pm and was so gripped that I went on until 3am... This story at once recognizable and new. Its freshness comes partly from Mary Hamer’s sensitive deployment of Kipling's own words." - Professor Jan Montefiore, Kent University
"Mary Hamer’s imaginative novel draws the unfolding scenes of Rudyard’s and Trix’s lives in an intimate, domestic and conversational style and shows us with delicacy and understatement how their early experiences were to play out... This is immersive storytelling with a real lightness of touch, so that we are drawn with a sense of intimacy into the conversations and thoughts of the characters. The shifts of time and place and the inner narrative of emotion produce a surprising sense of dramatic movement and shape,so that we could indeed be watching the scenes of a play." - Christine Lehman (Soret 1963 English)
"Truly engaging" - The Writes of Women
Notă biografică
Mary Hamer taught for many years before deciding to write full-time. She travels widely, though not as widely as Kipling, spending time each year in the United States, where she trained as an actor. In Southwark, where she lives with her husband, she works as a volunteer with young offenders. Her experience as the mother of a step-family helps with this. She has published works of non-fiction before but this is her first novel.
Descriere
An award-winning novel that delves into the little-known life of Alice "Trix" Kipling, sister to the famous Rudyard.