1969年。Ellie Barton从小到大和她的父亲生活在他们已破烂的庄园。她来自贵族的血统，但是他们现在活在贫穷的状态下。她的生活围绕在她对于家族的各个责任上。他们的小镇玛富德是Ellie的祖父成立的，但这个小镇已道路陈腐——旧盐矿的沉淀慢慢地在损毁建筑、图书馆里的书都发霉了、居民的忠诚度开始变动。当两位充满理想、反机构的年轻人出现在这个小镇上并擅自占用庄园其中一个已关闭的侧楼，他们让Ellie看到了外面的世界也同时震动了整个小镇。Ellie渐渐了解自己到底有多被困在这个小镇、她的历史以及别人对她的期待上。她终于发现，爱情可以伤害你，也可以给你自由。
这是一本关于界限、回忆以及时光，以及历史如何让人变得衰弱的一本书。作者的文笔风格优美又简单，阅读起来非常浪漫以及温馨。整本书有非常强烈的电影画面，书中的主角们也让读者不自主的喜欢上。
关于作者：
Jaqueline Yallop写过两本小说，Kissing Alice (Atlantic Books: 2010)这本书被提名 McKitterick Prize，以及 Obedience (Atlantic Books: 2011)这本书被提名 Man Booker Prize。她的书已经被翻译成多国语言，美国版本由企鹅出版社出版。她同时也出版非虚构作品，出版过 Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World (Atlantic Books: 2011)，本书入围 Longman-History Today2012年年度大书。
给Obedience的书评：
Obedience (Atlantic Books, 2011)
“Obedience should have been on the Booker shortlist: seriously intelligent (and serious), steeped in ambiguities and hugely readable. Can a novel do or be more?” Julie Myerson, New Statesman, ‘Books of the Year’
“Obedience is an original novel, quietly written but intensely imagined, about one of the defining questions of the century just past: where and how we choose to draw the line between innocence and guilt, ignorance and complicity...it’s rare to find a book that is seemingly so simple, but is really ambiguous and thought-provoking.” Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall.
“Obedience begins as a novel of slow intense observation and opens out into a novel of huge scope and profound questioning…Yallop leaves unmarked the line between what is ordinary and what is significant, or even sublime…This is a novel about forms of guilt and complicity, the uses of humility and humiliation, and the sadness of missed opportunities.” Alexandra Harris, The Sunday Times
‘“A work of great originality, devastating in its impact… Yallop is a writer of rare fine judgment and delicacy… As powerful as it is subtle, a novel of gripping emotional and psychological intensity.” Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail
“[A] spellbinding tale of betrayal and illicit desire…it is the human experience of love, desire, guilt and loneliness that are at the heart of the novel. Yallop writes with real flair about these emotions, and it is some measure of her skill that she turns a nun’s failed hopes into a compelling and quietly devastating story about a woman destroyed by her faith.” The Independent
- 玛富德小镇
- Marlford
- 作者：Jacqueline Yallop
- 出版社代理人：Atlantic Books （英国）
- 出版时间：2014年3月
- 页数：304页
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