検索キーワード： "Test" 歴史小説

A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on the two accounts of her life--the real one and the one she’s always told the world--in this poignant short story by Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild. In 1964, teenage Geraldine Waters was sent away by her parents to an unwed mothers’ home, where she gave up her newborn for adoption. Ever since, she’s lived an alternative narrative. Decades later, it’s time for Geraldine to reconcile the telling of her life, to finally grieve, and to discover what happened to that part of her past that slipped away.

Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired officer has been murdered, and Rutledge goes to investigate.

La joven pelirroja Demelza nació fruto del amor entre una escocesa y un vikingo, algo que Urd, la mujer de este, nunca perdonará. Demelza, a la que todos llaman Pelirroja salvaje, creció con unos hermanastros que la adoraban y un padre que la veneraba. Urd, sin embargo, se la tiene jurada y, con la ayuda de un malvado vikingo llamado Viggo, urde un plan para destrozar el futuro de su hijastra. El padre de la joven, creyendo todo lo que se dice de ella, la obliga a casarse con Viggo, algo de lo que más tarde se arrepentirá y que, sin duda, marcará el resto de su vida.

WWI is waning in Europe, but Lieutenant Barksdale’s near-constant aerial combat missions have taken their toll. Lura Lee Dunn is an aspiring concert pianist whose own personal battle is just beginning. The women’s suffrage movement is on the rise, emboldening her to break free from her prominent father’s outdated expectations. Unexpectedly, at a posh Hollis House gala, she meets a young pilot, one just home from fighting the Jerries over France. Try as she might to avoid the young aviator, Lura finds herself drawn to him.