А дальше - море

Kogda v 1940-m na London nachinai͡ut padatʹ nemet͡skie bomby, Milli i Redzhinalʹd Tompson reshai͡utsi͡a na trudnyĭ shag: oni otpravli͡ai͡ut svoi͡u odinnadt͡satiletni͡ui͡u dochʹ Beatris za okean, v bezopasnui͡u Ameriku. Tam eĭ predstoit zhitʹ v chuzhoĭ semʹe, poka ne zakonchitsi͡a voĭna. Napugannai͡a, zlai͡a na roditeleĭ, odinokai͡a i poteri͡annai͡a, Bea pribyvaet v stranu, stolʹ otlichnui͡u ot mrachnogo voennogo Londona. Mister i missis Dzhi, a takzhe ikh synovʹi͡a Uilʹi͡am i Dzheralʹd radushno prinimai͡ut anglichanku, i vskore ona stanovitsi͡a svoeĭ v ėtom novom mire, chastʹi͡u schastlivoĭ semʹi. Idet vremi͡a, voĭna nikak ne zatikhnet, i Bea uzhe kazhetsi͡a, chto net nichego estestvenneĭ, chem tikhai͡a, spokoĭnai͡a zhiznʹ zdesʹ, v bolʹshom i ui͡utnom dome, i polnye veselʹi͡a letnie mesi͡at͡sy na kroshechnom ostrove. Sumrachnyĭ London, vechno ustalye roditeli nachinai͡ut kazatʹsi͡a eĭ chem-to dalekim, no vse zhe Bea ne khochet zabyvatʹ svoe detstvo, svoi korni. I ona vozvrashchaetsi͡a domoĭ, odnako pami͡atʹ o ee amerikanskoĭ semʹe navsegda v serdt͡se Bea, i imenno ėti vospominanii͡a napravli͡ai͡ut ee po zhizni. "A dalʹshe - more" - roman, polnyĭ solnt͡sa i tumana, ostrogo schastʹi͡a i tomitelʹnoĭ boli, proshchenii͡a i ponimanii͡a, poterʹ i li͡ubvi.

When German bombs begin to fall on London in 1940, Millie and Reginald Thompson decide to take a difficult step.: they send their eleven-year-old daughter Beatrice overseas, to a safe America. There she will have to live with someone else's family until the war is over. Scared, angry at her parents, lonely and lost, Bea arrives in a country so different from the gloomy military London. Mr. and Mrs. Gee, as well as their sons William and Gerald, warmly welcome the Englishwoman, and soon she becomes her own in this new world, part of a happy family. As time passes, the war continues unabated, and Bea already feels that there is nothing more natural than a quiet, peaceful life here in a large and cozy house, and full of fun summer months on a tiny island. Gloomy London, eternally tired parents begin to seem like something far away to her, but still Bea does not want to forget her childhood, her roots. And she returns home, but the memory of her American family is forever in Bea's heart, and it is these memories that guide her through life. "And then the Sea" is a novel full of sun and fog, acute happiness and agonizing pain, forgiveness and understanding, loss and love.