Bøger af Brunonia Barry

Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, offers an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world. Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats?a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She's now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She's also about to marry one of Boston's most eligible bachelors. But the suicide of Zee's patient Lilly Braedon throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she though she'd left behind. What starts as a brief visit home to Salem after Lilly's funeral becomes the beginning of a larger journey for Zee. Her father, Finch, long ago diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, has been hiding how sick he really is. His longtime companion, Melville, has moved out, and it now falls to Zee to help her father through this difficult time. Their relationship, marked by half-truths and the untimely death of her mother, is strained and awkward. Overwhelmed by her new role, and uncertain about her future, Zee destroys the existing map of her life and begins a new journey, one that will take her not only into her future but into her past as well. Like the sailors of old Salem who navigated by looking at the stars, Zee has to learn to find her way through uncharted waters to the place she will ultimately call home.

"Masterfully woven...The Map of True Places is a gripping quest for truth that kept me reading at the edge of my seat to the very last page."--Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice Brunonia Barry, author of the beloved New York Times and international bestseller The Lace Reader is back with The Map of True Places, an emotionally resonant novel of tragedy, secrets, identity, and love. The moving and remarkable tale of a psychotherapist who discovers the strands of her own life in the death of a troubled patient, The Map of True Places is another glorious display of the unique storytelling prowess that inspired Toronto's Globe and Mail to exclaim, "Brunonia Barry can write. Boy can she write."

In the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale, Brunonia Barry's bewitching gothic novel, The Lace Reader, is a phenomenon. Called "[a] richly imagined saga of passion, suspense, and magic" by Time Magazine, it is a haunting and remarkable tale told by an unforgettable, if strangely unreliable narrator--a woman from an enigmatic Salem family who can foretell the future in patterns of lace. The Lace Reader was a runaway New York Times bestseller--hitting the top lists in major cities across the country, from Boston to Chicago to Los Angeles--and has immediately established debut author Brunonia Barry as a major force in contemporary American fiction.

Every gift has a price . . . Every piece of lace has a secret . . .My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time . . . Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light.

Mit navn er Towner Whitney.Nej, det er ikke helt sandt. Mit rigtige fornavner Sophya. I skal ikke tro på, hvad jeg siger.Jeg lyver hele tiden.Sådan starter Towner Whitney sin fortælling, der rummer historien om tre generationer af Salem-kvinder, kendt for deres særhed og for at kunne forudsige fremtiden ved at læse i kniplinger. Towner selv er flyttet langt væk fra Salem og har svoret ikke at gøre brug af denne evne, efter at hun, traumatiseret af sin elskede tvillingesøsters selvmord, brød sammen og blev indlagt på et psykiatrisk hospital som 17-årig. Nu, femten år efter, begiver hun sig modvilligt tilbage, da hun hører, at hendes grandtante, Eva, er forsvundet på mystisk vis.Gensynet med hjembyen og personer fra fortiden bryder ind i Towners liv og tvinger uklare minder frem. Samtidig forsvinder endnu en kvinde, og opklaringen af sagen leder den lokale politimand Rafferty i retning af Whitney-familiens mørke hemmeligheder. Gradvist kastes der lys over fortidens skygger, og Towner må stå ansigt til ansigt med sandheden om, hvad der egentlig skete den sommer, hendes søster døde.Søstrene i Salem er en vidtforgrenet fortælling, hvori ekkoet fra fortidens heksejagter i Salem smelter sammen med lige dele medrivende spændingsroman, gribende slægtskrønike og en hypnotiserende, magisk fortælling om en ung kvinde, der balancerer på kanten af virkeligheden."Brunonia Barry har udført en storslået bedrift med sin debutroman Søstrene i Salem. Det er en pragtfuldt skrevet litterær roman med stærke thrillerelementer, der krones af en opklaring, som får selv den mest årvågne læser til at sidde måbende tilbage."- dallas morning newsCopyright © 2006 by Brunonia BarryOversat af Henriette Rostrup fra The Lace Readerhekseforfølgelse, religion, vold, voldtægt, eksorcisme, tvillinger, USA, Massachusetts, 1990-1999