На задната корица:
'Molly's behaving like a teenager. She even looks like a teenager. She's got that glow you get when all you think about is sex.'
Alice wanted to say something that would allow them to believe such an event had never happened before. But this happened all the time. Not just infidelity, but the sudden impact of involuntary occurrences. Money was there to protect you, Sunnyside money, the unseen notes that floated freely over the suburb, unseen but worshipped, the confidence of affluence.Yet as it turned out, money really was not everything. It could not save them from these small, unheralded comets, landing unevenly on their irrigated lawns.
'On some level, this is just a major attention-getting exercise,' said Lily. 'She's saying: Look at me, I'm still young, I'm still wild!'
'She is wild,' said Alice.' Can't we be wild? Being white and middle class? Does that cancel us out automatically?'
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От вътрешната страна на обложката:
The pool.
The tennis court.
The luxury cars.
It's the life everyone dreams about. It's Sunnyside.
Harry and Alice Haskins moved from the city in search of mid-life happiness. But fate has other plans. Alice is struggling with writer's block. Harry, an English professor, is haunted by a beguilingly provocative student. Their children, Joe and Grace, are in danger of capsizing in the deep waters of childhood. And when one of Alice's best friends embarks on a passionate affair, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates through the Haskins family and the rest of Sunnyside with devastating consequences...
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Басейнът.
Тенис кортът.
Луксозните коли.
Това е животът, за който всеки мечтае. Сънисайд е.
Хари и Алис Хаскинс се преместиха от града в търсене на щастието на средната възраст. Но съдбата има други планове. Алис се бори с писателския блок. Хари, професор по английски, е преследван от изумително провокативен студент. Техните деца, Джо и Грейс, са в опасност да се преобърнат в дълбоките води на детството. И когато една от най-добрите приятелки на Алис се впуска в страстна афера, това поставя началото на верига от събития, които отекват в семейство Хаскинс и останалата част от Сънисайд с опустошителни последици...
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About the Author:
Joanna Murray-Smith is a Melbourne-based playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her plays, which include Honour, Rapture, Bombshells, Nightfall, Redemption, Love Child and Flame, have been produced around the world. Honour has been produced in over two dozen countries, including productions on Broadway and at the National Theatre in London. Both Honour and Rapture won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Best Play. Joanna is the author of two previous novels, Truce and Judgement Rock, both published by Penguin.
