Daughter of Mine - Anne Bennett

"Дочь моей жизни"

"Дочь моей жизни" - это трогательная и теплая сага о бомбардировке Бирмингема во время Второй мировой войны, написанная автором "Дэнни Бой". Лиззи понимает, что жизнь во время бомбардировки Бирмингема тяжела. Ее муж отсутствует, сражаясь во Второй мировой войне, и она с сожалением отправила своих двух маленьких детей к своим родителям в Голуэй, зная, что они будут в безопасности там. Она благодарна за свою работу на фабрике боеприпасов, но не так счастлива, когда это означает возвращаться домой во время темноты, избегая разрушений от бомбардировок.

Однажды Лиззи подвергается нападению во время одной из таких поездок. Она просыпается избитой и синяками, не помня полной степени нападения - но она боится худшего, и она права. Обращаясь к своей семье в отчаянии, ей говорят, что она принесла им только позор. Однако помощь приходит от самого неожиданного места...

Anne Bennett's `Daughter of Mine` details the heartrending ordeal of Lizzie in Birmingham's Blitz. This moving book is set during the Second World war when teenager Lizzie struggles with life and loss. Her mother Gwen dies of TB and her father, Harry dies in WW2 leaving her motherless and behind with three children on her own whilst husband Joe fights overseas.\nPriscilla, 17, and Jennifer, aged 15, have been evacuated but Lizzie, who is now 9, refuses to leave her sisters in her care.\nGlen, her sweetheart, takes her about Birmingham seeking mrs Jones, Gwens maiden name who offers to host her.\nMean villagers Stefan and Marion plot to use against Lizzie until Lizzies love for Glen overcomes their own dastardly intentions.\nBy coincidence Lizzie stumbles on the Oswald Mosley Bombing in its act and returned later flees a group of rowdies who assault her, resulting in critical injury as she falls off the rickshaw.\nHer face injured and vision blurred she questions life before collapsing and losing consciousness, only awakening eight days after the assault. Awareness slowly returns leaving her frightened and with conception that her colossal beating may have been something more sinister.\nAble to recognize her surroundings with brevity, Lizzie places faith with the ample community but is relentlessly scorned by her landlords Gossips and their evil talking bird Wiggins, leaving her enraged, hurt and helpless as she resents the attitude of many with her unwavering spirit remaining strong throughout, especially when she witness a bombing raid within her ears, orchestrated by SS officers Quillery, Galliffet and Blackett.\nMisunderstanding and side-stepping lingering dreams, each installment attempts to reflect Lizzies social strife through fleeting examples of joy, compassion, persecution and adversity.\nSome of the characters set throughout the narrative are generous, caring, greedy, brutal and friendly with an array of lifestyles and feelings sparking notable plots and emotions; not only for Lizzie but for the reader as well, offered via a highly readable, deft and perceptive presentation adjudged by critics to significantly impact budding writers as well.\nSwimming themes of race, role, culture and gender, `Daughter Of Mine` provides much insight into the various layers of women's experiences in those volatile era.\nAlthough few pictorials and several chapters in anonyms or anonymous hands loosen the book from its expected demonstration, overall it offers a lucid tapestry giving readers a striking review of Forties era British society, seen through the painful eyes of a vulnerable nine-year-old girl.\nIt would be conceited to expect an outright transformation of your agenda or desire after devouring this book, but a rare feeling of empathy, understanding and hope certainly can.\nWill you call Lizzie yours as Anne Bennett does? A beautiful website; Pushkin Press is present for English translators and expect centuries to come and lead sublime representation commentaries with Bennett\'s innate rhythmic flow and poignancy of brimming feelings.\nThe terrifying time depicted in all manner of involuntary climaxes and fallen sides but what lights signs of hope, love and actual forum pinging continually ringing through the arrhythmic timeline aside pain and strife, that that is Bennett\'s beautiful accomplishment utterly comprehensible as she tactfully widens his shared conundrums and resolves obstaclesographical landscape leading to ever shattering glasswork, exquisitely sculpting, igniting and reconciling lives and human experiences never mind the approaching famine and war with three poignant fingers.\nDuring his tenure as editor of The Voice\", Steven White sang `Birmingham\' as \"one of...the liveliest musical communities on earth\". A melding of cultures, artistic influence and sonic energy, the city was populated by artists from all over the world. 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Anne Bennett weaves a compelling story of one woman's trials and tribulations during the terrifying Birmingham Blitz in this novel, Daughter of Mine. Lizzie, who lives in Birmingham with her young son, Tom, and daughter, Jill, has been working as a munitions expert during this horrible period of time. However, even she cannot escape the dangers and hardships she faces each day.

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Язык: Английский

ISBN: 9780007343478

A heartrending and heartwarming saga of the Birmingham blitz, from the author of DANNY BOY.Lizzie is finding that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is away fighting in the Second World War and she has regretfully sent her two young children away to her parents in Galway, knowing that they will be safe there. She's grateful for her job in munitions but not so happy when that means getting home in the blackout, dodging the bomb damage.Then Lizzie is attacked on one such journey. She comes around battered and bruised, unable to remember the full extent of the attack – but she fears the worst, and is right to. Turning to her family in desperation, she is told she has brought them nothing but disgrace. Yet help is at hand, from the most unlikely place…