HALF BROKEN THINGS

Book ID/图书代码： 05380004R00644

English Summary/英文概要： Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award in 2003, this is an intricate and atmospheric psychological novel about three people who are drawn together by their desire to form a family and find a home – with fatal consequences. Jean, Michael and Steph are three reluctant loners – damaged and fearful of life, they cannot survive alone for much longer. A mixture of deceit, good luck and misfortune brings them to Walden Manor, a secluded and gracious country house that promises sanctuary and freedom from failure. For the first time in their lives they lose their sense of dread, but their sense of safety is built on a delusion. When their idyll is threatened, Jean, Michael and Steph discover that because their lives are now worth living they are also worth preserving. But at what cost?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 該書獲得 2003年CWA銀匕首獎。

這是一部情節錯綜複雜、能夠製造緊張氣氛的作品，希望能夠建立一個家庭的三個人，因為這個共同的願望走到了一起，但卻引來了一個災難性的結局。吉恩、邁克爾還有史蒂芬，他們害怕孤獨，無法做到獨自存活。一連串的欺騙、好運和不幸將他們帶到了沃爾登莊園，一個偏僻但舒適的鄉村。在這裡的生活讓他們生平第一次丟掉了生命中如影隨形的恐懼感，但是未曾料到這種安全感卻是一種錯覺。這段愜意的生活即將終止，吉恩、邁克爾和史蒂芬發現因為這段生活擁有生活的價值，因此更值得珍藏。但是，他們又將為此付出什麼代價呢？(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：’This book is a triumphant performance. People will be standing to applaud . . . She displays an astonishing insight into the darker recesses of the human soul . . . After I finished this book I found it hard to sleep, so deep was my disquiet at the gathering horror of the narrative and the subtle way in which Joss makes the reader complicit through inevitable sympathy with the damaged ones. Her confidence in handling shifts of narrative, the unobtrusively fine descriptions of the natural world, and uncanny gift for dialogue and, above all, a forensic ability to deconstruct psychological disintegration, combine to make a work of fiction that sets its author on the path to greatness.’---Bel Mooney, The Times

’A fascinating moral exercise as well as a gripping novel’---Scotland on Sunday

’HALF BROKEN THINGS is sad, funny, original and wise’---The Literary Review

’Well written and well plotted, with a good Bath background’---Evening Standard

’Morag Joss gets better with each book.’---Donna Leon on Fruitful Bodies

About the Author/作者介绍： Morag Joss left her native Scotland to study singing at the Guildhall School of Music. Since then, she has worked in museums, galleries and higher education as a manager and lecturer and as an adviser to arts education to the National Trust. Her books include a series of three crime novels featuring the professional cellist and amateur sleuth Sara Selkirk, FUNERAL MUSIC, FEARFUL SYMMETRY and FRUITFUL BODIES. Morag is currently working on her new book, entitled PUCCINI’S GHOSTS, for delivery later this Spring.
MORAG JOSS，成長於蘇格蘭,首部作品Funeral Music即被Independent Mystery書商協會提名為年度最受歡迎小說,第四部作品一舉奪得2003年銀匕首獎的至高殊榮

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