Элис Томпсон

Alice Thompsons new novel is a gothic story of book collecting, mutilation and madness. Violet is obsessed with the books of fairy tales her husband acquires, but her growing delusions see her confined in an asylum. As she recovers and is released a terrifying series of events is unleashed.

Set in the early nineteenth century, Pharos is a dazzling ghost story from an award-winning author. A young woman is washed up on the shores of Jacob's Rock, a remote lighthouse island off the coast of Scotland. She does not know who she is or how she got there. She has no memory. The keeper of the lighthouse and his assistant take her in and feed and clothe her. But this mysterious woman ...

Однажды ночью над островком у побережья Шотландии разыгрался шторм, а наутро волна выбросила на песок женщину. Суровый смотритель маяка и его помощник, единственные обитатели островка, приютили ее. Кто она и откуда - этого таинственная незнакомка не помнит. Да и уединенный маяк вовсе не такое спокойное место, каким кажется... Таинственный триллер, образец современной "готической" литературы, краси...