HELEN DUNMORE

Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements and terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life, forged in a crucible of shared suffering. Daniel has survived, but the horror and passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him. He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie? Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK's most acclaimed storytellers.

Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland?s freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund. Slowly, Thomas falls in love with Eeva ...but she has committed herself long ago to a boy from her childhood, Lauri, who is now caught up in Helsinki?s turmoil of resistance to Russian rule. Set in dangerous, unfamiliar times which strangely echo our own, the story reveals how terrorism lies hidden within ordinary life, as rulers struggle to hold on to power. House of Orphans is a rich, brilliant story of love, history and change.

Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from and what can she become? Thirty years later, married to Adam, she gives birth to Ruby, and to a new life herself. But when sudden tragedy changes the course of that life for ever, and all the lives that touch hers, Rebecca is out in the world again, searching ...

London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets.When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested.His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up, and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall.She knows that she too is in danger, and must fight to protect her children. But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past, and may be found guilty of another crime that carries with it an even greater penalty.

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard Sleeping under it for warmth, she starts to dream...

Its 1792 and Europe is seized by turmoil and violence. Lizzies husband has everything to lose, and as his investments are threatened, his passion for Lizzie darkens. Set in a time of political chaos and personal tragedy, this is a novel about terror and resistance from the award-winning author of THE LIE and THE SIEGE.

Helen Dunmore writes poetry, short stories and novels both for children and adults and she has received widespread acclaim for work. All ten books of her adult fiction have been published by Penguin, and in Rose, 1944 we present several short stories that reveal the range, intricacy and depth found in one of modern fiction's great lyrical voices

Un Triangulo amoroso de fatales consecuencias; una mujer inmersa en una crisis existencial de grandes dimensiones; dos hermanos cuyas personalidades enfrentadas hacen que se rechacen y se necesiten en la misma medida..., y una niña inocente que aprende a vislumbrar alguna verdad a través del dolor y el desarraigo sin saber desenvolverse en medio de la “imperfección” de sus progenitores. Estos son los elementos argumentales de El estado imperfecto, fruto de un esmerado trabajo de orfebrería, donde el engranaje de todas las piezas resulta perfecto.Helen Dunmore –ganadora del prestigioso premio británico Orange Prize—construye una compleja trama psicológica e intimista cargada de sinceridad y sentimiento, y propone formas de resistencia ante lo que parecen ser las fuerzas ocultas y arbitrarias que manejan a su antojo nuestras vidas. El amor es una de ellas, quizá la más reconocible y, en ocasiones, también la más despiadada.

Tanya ha sido hija única durante muchos años y jamás se ha sentido sola. ¿Acaso no tiene padres, amigos y compañeros en la escuela? Sin embargo, sus padres deciden tener otro hijo y he aquí el resultado: cuatrillizos, ¡dos niños y dos niñas! Así que Tanya, ex hija única, se encuentra rodeada de cuatro hermanos llorones, un padre y una madre desmejorados y exhaustos, montones de pañales tirados por doquier y, lo que es peor, la trágica convicción de que no es posible devolver al remitente esos cuatro monstruitos.

Paul and Johnnie are born 12 years apart. Their progress is rapid and devastating, and others are consumed by it. When Paul marries Louise, Johnnie is part of the contract, while their daughter Anna is tangled in it from birth. Louise tells the story in all its crookedness, force and tenderness.