Конец лета. Пустой дом. Снег в апреле

Knigi Rozamundy Pilcher (1924–2019) znaiut i liubiat vo vsem mire. Ee romany nezamyslovaty i netoroplivy, zato v nikh mnogo podlinnogo tepla i serdechnosti. Kredo pisatelʹnitsy mozhno okharakterizovatʹ frazoĭ: «U khoroshikh liudeĭ vsegda vse budet khorosho», — i v dannom sluchae ėto zalog ustoĭchivogo chitatelʹskogo uspekha. Dzheĭn, geroinia romana «Konets leta», priezzhaet v shotlandskoe rodovoe imenie v nadezhde povidatʹsia s kuzenom, v kotorogo s detstva vliublena. Chto podarit eĭ ėta vstrecha, pomimo semeĭnykh «skeletov v shkafu»?.. Ovdovevshaia Virdzhiniia otpravliaetsia na vetrenoe poberezhʹe Kornuolla, chtoby porazmyshliatʹ o svoem ne slishkom schastlivom proshlom i poniatʹ, kak zhitʹ dalʹshe («Pustoĭ dom»). I nakonets statʹ khoziaĭkoĭ sobstvennoĭ sudʹby, sdelav vazhnyĭ vybor. Vesenniaia pogoda peremenchiva, osobenno v Shotlandii, — to solntse, a to vdrug metelʹ («Sneg v aprele»). Kėrolaĭn vynuzhdena sdelatʹ ostanovku v puti iz-za snegopada i postuchatʹsia v dveri chuzhogo doma. Denʹ ee svadʹby naznachen na sleduiushchiĭ vtornik, no kovarnyĭ aprelʹ, pokhozhe, rasporiadilsia po-svoemu... Roman predstavlen v novom perevode.

Rosamund Pilcher's books (1924-2019) are known and loved all over the world. Her novels are uncomplicated and unhurried, but they have a lot of genuine warmth and cordiality. The credo of the writer can be characterized by the phrase: "Good people will always be fine," and in this case it is the key to sustained reader success. Jane, the heroine of the novel "The End of Summer", comes to the Scottish family estate in the hope of seeing her cousin, with whom she has been in love since childhood. What will this meeting give her, besides the family "skeletons in the closet"?.. Widowed Virginia goes to the windy coast of Cornwall to reflect on her not too happy past and figure out how to live on ("Empty House"). And finally become the mistress of your own destiny, making an important choice. Spring weather is changeable, especially in Scotland — sometimes the sun, and then suddenly a blizzard ("Snow in April"). Caroline is forced to make a stop on the way because of the snowfall and knock on the door of someone else's house. Her wedding day is scheduled for next Tuesday, but insidious April seems to have had her own way... The novel is presented in a new translation.