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Zusatztext This is the best book I have read in 2016 (...) Mother Tongue seriously surpassed all my expectations and blew me away. From page one I was hooked and hanging out to know what would happen next (...) I instantly fell in love with the writing-style. Julie Mayhew certainly has a way with words. The descriptive language in Mother Tongue is just beautiful! and it was never overdone or overpowering. It felt like I was stepping into another world and that all the characters were real. Even though I've never been to Russia I felt like I could clearly visualise both Saratov and Moscow where the story takes place. (...) Not only is this a story about grief and loss! but it is also about finding your voice and yourself in the aftermath of tragedy (...) I really *really* loved this book (...) Mother Tongue is a raw! heartbreaking look at tragedy and its aftermath! but is also a story about hope - and one that you should definitely add to your to be read list Informationen zum Autor Julie Mayhew is the author of Red Ink (shortlisted for the 2014 Branford Boase Award), The Big Lie (winner of the 2016 Sidewise Award for Alternate History) and the critically acclaimed Mother Tongue. She also writes for the stage and for film, and has been twice nominated for Best Original Drama at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for her radio plays -including a 2016 recognition for the The Electrical Venus, the drama on which this book is based. Julie grew up in Peterborough and originally trained as a journalist, then as an actress, before turning to writing because she couldn't find enough brilliant roles for girls. www.juliemayhew.co.uk Twitter: @juliemayhew Instagram: JulieMayhew Klappentext Darya is a young woman trying to recover her life after a brutal terrorist attack shakes her rural Russian hometown, killing her young sister. Her father wants her married off to one of his factory employees and her mother has resurfaced as the matriarch of their family, displacing Darya and even blaming her for Nika's death. But the attack has drawn foreigners to their community, reporters and aid workers who open Darya's eyes to the world. When she falls for a older man, a journalist from New York, could he be her ticket out of her hometown, her old life and her grief? Zusammenfassung If you leave home, is your heart left behind? Darya Ivanova is looking forward to September. She has looked after her little sister, Nika, since she was a baby. Now Nika is starting school. Maybe Darya can find a job with her own tidy desk. Perhaps even a boyfriend. But when an unimaginable tragedy strikes, Darya's life plans are fractured. Stalled. She is afraid. What if she never knows real love? What if she never finds somewhere she belongs? If only she could get to Moscow. There, Darya could escape. There, she could become someone else . . . 'Magnificent' Independent on The Big Lie ...
