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V gorodke svoego detstva na i͡uzhnom poberezhʹe Anglii izvestnai͡a pisatelʹnit͡sa Bekket Raĭan ne byla uzhe bolʹshe desi͡ati let. Ona davno razorvala otnoshenii͡a s roditeli͡ami, no teperʹ oba umerli s raznit͡seĭ v nedeli͡u, i eĭ neobkhodimo prisutstvovatʹ na pokhoronakh. Vernuvshisʹ, Bekket obnaruzhivaet, chto mestnye zhiteli ee nenavidi͡at i osuzhdai͡ut rovno v toĭ stepeni, v kakoĭ li͡ubili i pochitali ee ott͡sa i matʹ. A vedʹ gorozhane ne znali po-nastoi͡ashchemu roditeleĭ Raĭan. Ikh nikto ne znal po-nastoi͡ashchemu. No vot posredi ledi͡anogo mori͡a vrazhdebnosti poi͡avli͡aetsi͡a Linn, edinstvennai͡a, kto otnositsi͡a k Bekket s teplotoĭ i simpatieĭ. V detstve Linn byla ee luchsheĭ podrugoĭ, a seĭchas stala predannoĭ fanatkoĭ. Vot tolʹko… Bekket uverena, chto nikogda prezhde ne vstrechala ėtu Linn. I po mere togo kak ona znakomitsi͡a s mestnymi zhiteli͡ami, iz glubin pami͡ati vsplyvai͡ut sobytii͡a detstva - sobytii͡a, kotorye sovsem ne khochetsi͡a vspominatʹ. Vpervye na russkom!

The famous writer Beckett Ryan has not been to her childhood town on the south coast of England for more than a decade. She broke off relations with her parents a long time ago, but now both died within a week of each other, and she needs to attend the funeral. Upon returning, Beckett discovers that the locals hate and condemn her exactly to the extent that they loved and revered her father and mother. But the townspeople didn't really know Ryan's parents. No one really knew them. But in the midst of an icy sea of hostility, Lynn appears, the only one who treats Beckett with warmth and sympathy. Lynn was her best friend when she was a kid, but now she's a devoted fan. That's just… Beckett is sure she's never met this Lynn before. And as she gets to know the locals, childhood events come up from the depths of her memory — events that she doesn't want to remember at all. For the first time in Russian!