Author:Ian McEwan,Claire Messud
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
"From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”
He is this country’s unrivalled literary giant … a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel
A brilliant and majestic fictional panorama.
—— John Updike , The New YorkerA tender, off-kilter love story… the novel paints a vivid picture of two very different kinds of misfit, falling in love over one dusty, teeming London summer
—— ObserverHudson captures the bustle of life in Hackney and Russia with energy and a sharp eye for detail… [Her characters] have love, guts, humour and conscience. This is Love on the Dole 21st-century style
—— Louise Welsh , GuardianTremendously affecting... impressively unostentatious in its instinct for a common story within a city of millions that never gets heard
—— Claire Allfree , MetroAn unusual love story... a refreshing change from the plethora of middle-class novel fare that simply holds a mirror to the majority of readers
—— John Harding , Daily MailA brilliant, enthralling saga, Thirst presents with such uncommon verisimilitude that scarcely a syllable appears contrived
—— Joseph Crilly , Irish TimesKerry Hudson has consolidated her position with this second novel as a writer who is prepared to face the injustices and the grimness of life, and tell of lives usually ignored... Thirst is hardly an easy summer read... but it is probably an essential one
—— Lesley McDowell , ScotsmanA classy will-they won't-they romance with a difference... Sheer escapism from start to finish
—— BellaBoth funny and touching... Hudson's debut was highly praised and this is a terrific follow-up
—— Woman & HomeThere is a love story at the hear tof this one which thankfully isn't saccharine or sugar coated but real and bumpy and awkward and wonderful... her characters are real, funny and flawed... Kerry is rather a genius
—— Savidge ReadsHudson is a star in the making
—— Good HousekeepingIt’s a brave book, easily consumed in a day, and I’m in awe of Hudson’s expert demolition of the conventions of the genre
—— Emma Rees , Times Higher EducationThirst is shot through with a vein of optimism, and never lets go of its belief in the power of love, compassion and forgiveness
—— Alastair Mabbott , HeraldUnflinching yet tender-hearted study of two lowly characters teetering on the brink
—— Daragh Reddin , Irish TimesThis one is a juicy read
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