她所拥有的生活：一个感人且充满情感的家庭和坚韧女性的传奇 The Life She Was Given:A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 368 pages

Publisher:Kensington Publishing

Imprint:Kensington Publishing

ISBN:9781496749864

Published:21 Jan 2025

Dimensions:210 x 140 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《在我们成为你的人之前》与《大象的眼泪》在《纽约时报》畅销书作家艾伦·玛丽·怀斯曼的这部生动、大胆、感人的小说中相遇，讲述了家庭秘密的毁灭性力量——故事始于大萧条时期巡回马戏团的凄美、耸人听闻的世界，并在变革的 20 世纪 50 年代圆满结束。

1931 年的一个夏夜，莉莉·布莱克伍德从她阁楼卧室肮脏的窗户瞥见了马戏团的灯光。莉莉不被允许探索布莱克伍德庄园周围的草地。她甚至从未冒险离开过她狭窄的房间。妈妈坚持说这是为了莉莉自己的安全，人们如果看到她会害怕。但在这个难忘的夜晚，莉莉第1次被带到外面——并被卖给了马戏团的杂耍表演。

二十多年后，十九岁的朱莉娅·布莱克伍德继承了父母的遗产。对于朱莉娅来说，家是一个充满规则和禁忌房间的不快乐的地方。她希望回家可以抹去那些痛苦的回忆。相反，她沉浸在一个谜团中，其中涉及一个隐藏的阁楼房间和一个引人注目的年轻女孩的马戏团场景照片。

起初，巴洛兄弟马戏团对莉莉来说只是另一个监狱。但在这个杂乱无章、有时残酷的世界里，莉莉发现了力量、友谊和对动物的罕见亲和力。多亏了大象佩珀和乔乔以及它们的驯养员科尔，莉莉不再是一个奇观，而是马戏团的魅力所在……直到悲剧和残酷相撞。朱莉娅将揭开莉莉的命运和她家人令人震惊的背叛，并以某种方式让布莱克伍德庄园最终成为一个治愈的地方。

艾伦·玛丽·怀斯曼在朱莉娅和莉莉的故事之间穿梭，在这部温柔、令人心碎、充满希望的小说中描绘了两个非凡、截然不同的女人。

Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman’s vivid, daring, emotional novel about the devastating power of family secrets—beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s.

On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn’t allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She’s never even ventured beyond her narrow room. Momma insists it’s for Lilly’s own protection, that people would be afraid if they saw her. But on this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time—and sold to the circus sideshow.

More than two decades later, nineteen-year-old Julia Blackwood inherits her parents’ estate. For Julia, home was an unhappy place full of rules and forbidden rooms. She hopes that returning might erase those painful memories. Instead, she becomes immersed in a mystery involving a hidden attic room and photos of circus scenes featuring a striking young girl.

At first, The Barlow Brothers’ Circus is just another prison for Lilly. But in this rag-tag, sometimes brutal world, Lilly discovers strength, friendship, and a rare affinity for animals. Thanks to elephants Pepper and JoJo, and their handler, Cole, Lilly is no longer a spectacle but the circus’s biggest attraction . . . until tragedy and cruelty collide. It will fall to Julia to uncover Lilly’s fate and her family’s shocking betrayal, and somehow make Blackwood Manor a place of healing at last.

Moving between Julia and Lilly’s stories, Ellen Marie Wiseman portrays two extraordinary, very different women in a novel that is tender, heart wrenching, and hopeful.

作者简介

艾伦·玛丽·怀斯曼是《纽约时报》畅销书作家，著有广受好评的历史小说《孤儿收藏家》、《她留下的东西》、《李子树》、《煤河》、《她被赋予的生命》和《威洛布鲁克的迷失女孩》。她出生并成长于纽约州北部的一个小村庄三英里湾，是第1代德裔美国人，在纽约州最后一所只有一间教室的校舍之一上一年级时发现了自己对阅读和写作的热爱。从那时起，她的书在美国的销量已超过一百万册。她的小说在世界各地出版，被翻译成二十种语言，并被《阅读小组选择》、《好管家》、《Goodreads》、《历史小说协会》、《Great Group Reads》等评选为“佳选”小说。艾伦是两个孩子的母亲，与丈夫和狗住在安大略湖畔。

Ellen Marie Wiseman is the New York Times bestselling author of the highly acclaimed historical fiction novels The Orphan Collector, What She Left Behind, The Plum Tree, Coal River, The Life She Was Given, and The Lost Girls of Willowbrook. Born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in northern New York, she’s a first-generation German American who discovered her love of reading and writing while attending first grade in one of the last one-room schoolhouses in New York State. Since then, more than one million copies of her books have been sold in the United States. Her novels have been published worldwide, translated into twenty languages, and named to “Best Of” lists by Reading Group Choices, Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, The Historical Novel Society, Great Group Reads, and more. A mother of two, Ellen lives on the shores of Lake Ontario with her husband and dog.