Bücher von Nell Leyshon

Eine Mutter und ihr Sohn. Zwei Leben - eine Vergangenheit. Der kleine Pawel wächst wohlbehütet auf, bis die Familie in Gefahr gerät und er mit seiner Mutter in den Wald fliehen muss. Isoliert von der Außenwelt leben sie über Monate ganz allein inmitten der Natur - die Erinnerung an diese Zeit lässt Mutter und Sohn nicht los. Als sie sich viele Jahre später wieder sehen, stehen sie erneut vor einer Bewährungsprobe. Können sie diese gemeinsam bewältigen? 'Eine herzzerreißende Liebeserklärung an Söhne und ihre Mütter.' Brigitte 'Nell Leyshon ist eine furchtlose Erkunderin der Seelen.' DER SPIEGEL über Die Farbe von Milch

Mein Name ist Mary. Mein Haar hat die Farbe von Milch. Und dies ist meine Geschichte. 'Alle Menschen, die glauben, früher sei alles besser gewesen, müssen dieses Buch lesen. Und alle anderen auch. Nell Leyshon gibt dem 15-jährigen Bauernmädchen Mary eine unfassbar starke Stimme.' DONNA 'Nell Leyshon erweist sich als furchtlose Erkunderin der Seelen. [...] Ein Roman von archaischer Wucht.' Spiegel Online 'Ein kompromissloses Werk von seltsamer, sprachlicher Schönheit.' Brigitte Zu Recht wurde dieser Roman von der englischen Presse als ein ungewöhnliches Meisterwerk gefeiert.' BÜCHER magazin 'Ebenso berührend wie eindringlich.' myself

You think you have everything. A happy marriage. Children you love. A job you enjoy. A house you've made into a home. Then, almost in the blink of an eye, you lose it. All. When Rachel decides things aren't working and asks Andrew to move out, she thinks she knows what she's doing; she thinks she knows how it will be, how Andrew will react, how the children will cope. After all, relationships end all the time, and everyone survives -- don't they? But Rachel is wrong, and her decision has consequences no one could have foreseen. 'A compelling study of a family cast adrift. Written with subtlety and sensitivity, this deceptively simple tale pulls the reader closer with each page' Catherine O'Flynn, author of What Was Lost 'Detailed and free-flowing; the shocking, emotional ending will leave you gasping for air' Easy Living

The Colour of Milk is the new novel by Orange longlisted author and playwright Nell Leyshon.'this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand'The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary leads a harsh life working on her father's farm alongside her three sisters. In the summer she is sent to work for the local vicar's invalid wife, where the reasons why she must record the truth of what happens to her - and the need to record it so urgently - are gradually revealed.'Haunting, distinctive voices... Mary's spare simple words paint brilliant pictures in the reader's mind . . . Nell Leyshon's imaginative powers are considerable' Independent'Bront -esque undertones . . . a disturbing statement on the social constraints faced by 19th-century women' FT'A small tour de force - a wonderfully convincing voice, and a devastating story told with great skill and economy' Penelope Lively'I loved it. The Colour of Milk is charming, Bront -esque, compelling, special and hard to forget. I loved Mary's voice - so inspiring and likeable. Such a hopeful book' Marian Keyes'Brilliant, devastating and unforgettable' Easy LivingNell Leyshon's first novel, Black Dirt, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth prize. Her plays include Comfort me with Apples, which won an Evening Standard Award, and Bedlam, which was the first play written by a woman for Shakespeare's Globe. She writes for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and won the Richard Imison Award for her first radio play. Nell was born in Glastonbury and lives in Dorset.

Frank lies in bed, his dying dreams haunted by memories of one long-ago summer, the sticky heat of night, and the stories his father told about Christ, the red-breasted robin, and kings Arthur and Alfred. But other images also rise to the surface, unbidden and unwanted, and Frank finds himself forced to recall his older sister, Iris, whose existence - and terrible crime - he has spent long years struggling to forget.

Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright.Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award.Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West. Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriach Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless.A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape.

Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of them claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl.