Дженнифер Джонстон

Helen moved to a small ocean-side village for the isolation—to be alone with the waves, birds, and changing seasons. Newly widowed, she spends her days painting in her glass-walled studio atop a hillside on Ireland’s northwest coast. From her perch she can study the rocks and dunes of the land sloping into the sea, the fishing boats rocking in the tide, and the railway station, abandoned for forty...

В книге представлены лучшие повести видных ирландских прозаиков: Джона Бэнвилла, Дженнифер Джонстон, Бернарда Маклэверти, Эдны О'Брайен. Произведения этих авторов отражают особенности литературного процесса в современной Ирландии, интерес писателей разных поколений к социально-политическим проблемам страны.

Late summer near Dublin, 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea. Slipping away from Aunt Mary and dotty Grandfather, 18-year-old Nancy has escaped down to the shore to dream in the beach hut - longing for her life to begin.