可怕的善意（入围Bridport奖）A Terrible Kindness

基本信息

Format: Paperback| 400 pages  

Dimensions: 153x 234x 28mm| 503g  

Publication date: 20 Jan 2022 

Publisher: Faber & Faber 

ISBN: 9780571368303

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

今晚，19岁的威廉·拉维里为成功而打扮，他很少穿着黑色礼服。这是殡仪员协会中部分会的女士之夜晚宴，威廉要带着格洛丽亚穿上她的亮片晚礼服。他几乎无法相信自己的运气。

但是，当客人们啜饮着饮料，抽着餐后烟时，一封电报送来了一个悲剧的消息。一个可怕的事件将震撼整个国家。现在是1966年10月，一个煤矿的山体滑坡掩埋了一所学校。阿伯凡。

威廉决定他必须采取行动，所以他站起来，自愿参加。这将是他的工作，也将是--尽管他还不知道--一个有可能牺牲他自己幸福的选择。他那晚的工作将迫使他思考他曾经的那个小男孩，以及他一直努力埋葬的损失。

但是，同情心会产生令人惊讶的后果，因为--正如威廉发现的那样--为他人付出这么多，有时可以帮助我们治愈自己。

Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies' Night Dinner Dance, and William is taking Gloria in her sequined evening gown. He can barely believe his luck.

But as the guests sip their drinks and smoke their post-dinner cigarettes a telegram delivers news of a tragedy. An event so terrible it will shake the nation. It is October 1966 and a landslide at a coal mine has buried a school: Aberfan.

William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job, and will be - although he's yet to know it - a choice that threatens to sacrifice his own happiness. His work that night will force him to think about the little boy he was, and the losses he has worked so hard to bury.

But compassion can have surprising consequences, because - as William discovers - giving so much to others can sometimes help us heal ourselves.

作者简介

Jo Browning Wroe在伯明翰的一个火葬场长大。她拥有东安格利亚大学的创意写作硕士学位，现在是剑桥大学露西卡文迪什学院的创意写作导师。她的小说《可怕的善意》入围了布里奇查普曼安德鲁斯奖。她有两个成年女儿，与丈夫住在剑桥。

Jo Browning Wroe grew up in a crematorium in Birmingham. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and is now Creative Writing Supervisor at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Her debut novel, A Terrible Kindness, was shortlisted for the Bridport Peggy Chapman-Andrews award. She has two adult daughters and lives with her husband in Cambridge.