Lily: A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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But fairy tales are often close to horror stories. Like all children at the Foundling Hospital, Lily spends her formative years with a foster family, in her case helmed by the lovingly maternal Nellie who lives on a Suffolk farm. At the age of six she is abruptly wrenched away (this was standard practice) and returned to the hospital where Tremain imagines a loveless climate of abuse on a par with that at Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.

Nagyon szeretem az írónőben, hogy játszi könnyedséggel adja át bármilyen korszak vagy hely atmoszféráját, és ez ebben a regényben sincs másként. Nem csak a lelencház borzalmai jönnek át, hanem a tizenkilencedik századi London hangulata vagy a vidéki idill is. Egyszerűen imádom, ahogy ír, bármilyen kemény témát élvezetessé tud varázsolni a stílusával.

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Rose Tremain’s latest novel is both a mystery set in 19th-century London and an indictment of the abuse of children.

Lily is a foundling, born in London but belonging nowhere. Her memory of a stint with foster parents, in a countryside setting which is a Constable sunset compared to the Doré hellscape that is Victorian London, sustains her through her later years at the Foundling Hospital. There, she is abused (in every sense of the word), isolated, desperate. Life regains a modicum of its early colour when she is apprenticed to a larger than life wigmaker - Lily finds a facsimile of family, of belonging. The darkness, though, remains - but it's in her soul, where she guards a fierce need for revenge, and later, a dark and terrible secret.

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A Lily Rose Tremain legsötétebb hangulatú könyve, legalábbis azok közül, amiket eddig olvastam. Megrázó őszinteséggel mutatja be a tizenkilencedik századi Anglia árnyékos oldalát, a lelencházak kegyetlen világát és visszaéléseit, az árvák kilátástalan, kiszolgáltatott helyzetét. Olvasás közben akarva-akaratlanul is eszembe jutott Stacey Halls Lelence, és hogy mennyivel szerencsésebbek voltak annak a könyvnek a szereplői.

Tremain tehetsége abban áll, hogy szereplői az élet minden területén megfordulnak, ennek ellenére megalapozottan jelenítik meg a regény szerzőjének világképét.” – Harper's Bazaar In a month’s time, Lily will be seventeen, but already she is a murderer. We know from the cover of the book that her story is ‘a tale of revenge’ but we don’t know until quite late in the book the reason for this act of revenge, or the identity of her victim, or how Lily carried out this murder.

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Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on 2 August 1943 in London to Viola Mabel Thomson and Keith Nicholas Home Thomson. [2] Her paternal great-grandfather is William Thomson, who was Archbishop of York from 1862 to 1890. [3] a b c d e f g "Tremain, Dame Rose, (born 2 Aug. 1943), novelist and playwright". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38001. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4 . Retrieved 2 August 2021. Lily is an ingenious blend of historical novel, moral fable and fairy story. Tremain, a pre-eminent historical novelist, vividly evokes the disparate social worlds of Victorian London... Lily is a tale not just of revenge but of redemption, which carries an intense emotional charge. Tremain again displays her supreme ability to create characters who are at once totally true to the period and instantly identifiable to the modern reader Financial Times But before Lily’s oppression can begin in earnest, she is whisked off to the Suffolk countryside. It is the hospital’s practice to farm out its charges for the first six years of their lives, presumably to ensure that they are sturdy enough to be properly brutalised. As befits the heroine of a melodrama, the arrangement also entrains a brief reversal of fortune. For at Rookery Farm, the young Lily is positively steeped in bucolic bliss, doted upon by a sweet-natured matriarch and surrounded by “a bright immensity of sky, skeins of thistledown born aloft, birds in the trembling heavens”. She dreams of Sam Trent, who seems to be watching over her, and he also seems to have special feelings for her. It is her guilty secret, because Sam is a married man and his wife has been especially kind to her.

At the heart of this novel is a taut moral drama that sits uneasily amid its more frivolous trappings

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We have tragedy and Marianne facing her life choices as she gets older, that Rose Tremain pulls together in a moving way. Lily is an odd novel, a Victorian revenge drama that reads like a fable. There are shades of the nativity in Lily’s first hours, while the themes of suffering, confession and salvation, while graphically depicted, nonetheless have the simplicity of biblical allegory. Meglepő, kicsit kíméletlen írás ez. A vége nyitott, mint egy szélesre tárt ablak. Nem minden regénynek van feltétlenül szüksége konkrét lezárásra. Van, amikor jobb a szívnek, ha engedik álmodozni. Ha meghagyják neki a reményt, legyen az mégoly hiú is.