国际畅销书《当时，上帝是兔子》作者备受期待的最新作品！
 
故事设在1947年，美妙女士（Marvellous Ways）今年89岁，一生独居在英国康沃尔小溪地区。她正常的一天就是带着她的望远镜坐在溪边。她等待者某个东西，但是她不知道是什么，只知道看到的时候会知道。这一年，她不停地等待。
 
Drake是一位年轻军人，在二次世界大战结束后从来没有真的恢复回来。 他承诺给一位临死的人的最后希望把他带到美妙女士的溪边，身心受创的他在老女士的照顾下满满坚强起来。透过美妙女士的回忆，Drake慢慢地开始重新欣赏人生，看见身边平凡中的不平凡。
 
 这是一本励志人心的书，关于日常生活上的魔法、海水的力量、说故事的痊愈能力、爱情、死亡以及如何面对人生中的悲哀。
 
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Sarah Winman住在伦敦。她是一位舞台、电影以及电视演员。这是她的第二本小说。
 
好评： 
A glorious poem of a novel - a story to read slowly and to marvel at the beauty of it’ --Rosamund Lupton, author of SISTER
 
‘A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS is like Dylan Thomas given a sexy rewrite by Angela Carter, it is by turns rhapsodic and elegiac, always unashamedly lyrical, yet there’s enough pepper in its observations of love, loss and ageing to keep too much sweetness at bay. The rivery Cornish setting evokes an intense, Neverland nostalgia and envy in the reader. And, once again, Winman’s central characters inspire up a powerful, playground yearning. These are people you want to love and protect and be claimed by, who live in a place where you want to move forthwith’--Patrick Gale
 
‘It’s glorious. Also moving, sad, and beautifully written’--Dulwich Books
 
‘Folkloric, poetic, gorgeous. All I needed was a campfire and a bottle of moonshine’--Emylia Hall
 
‘I loved it. Every line in the book is pure poetry and I found myself reading whole paragraphs again and again just to revel in the book's lyricism. Sarah Winman has created a protagonist in Marvellous Ways who's a wonderful combination of independence and vulnerability, and the sense of magic infused through the novel casts a spell over the reader that makes you not want to put the book down until you've turned the final page’--Hannah Beckerman, author of THE DEAD WIFE’S HANDBOOK
 
‘A book to savour, to read in wonderful, rich little bits like dark chocolate. Winman’s prose is poetry, with a rhythm, a heartbeat, that carries you through like music. The world she creates is wonderful-weird and I loved losing myself to it’--Emma Hooper, author if ETTA AND OTTO AND RUSSELL AND JAMES