Andrea Gillies

What happens when you can't see that the man you married is actually the one you love? For her whole life Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers, Paolo, whom she married, and Luca, with whom she was always in love and who remained her best friend throughout her marriage. Now Nina faces the future alone--estranged from Luca and separated from Paolo, she escapes to the tiny Greek island where she honeymooned twenty-five years earlier. After an accident she finds herself in the hospital telling her life story to an eagerly attentive doctor. As their conversations unfold she comes to understand the twists and turns of her romantic life and the unconscious influence of her parents' marriage on her own.

A stunning debut novel from the winner of the Orwell Prize 2010 and the inaugural Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009 On a hot summers afternoon, Ursula Salter runs sobbing from the loch on her parents Scottish estate and confesses, distraught, that she has killed Michael, her 19 year old nephew. But what really happened? No body can be found, and Ursulas story is full of contradictions. In order to protect her, the Salters come up with another version of events, a decision that some of them will come to regret. Years later, at a family gathering, a witness speaks up and the web of deceit begins to unravel. What is the white lie? Only one person knows the whole truth. Narrating from beyond the grave, Michael takes us to key moments in the past, looping back and back until - finally - we see what he sees.

"Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches." - Sunday Times"A delicate depiction of life, love and possibly madness... Moving and surprising" - Daily ExpressNina Findlay, alluring, accomplished, deluded, always the heroine of her own life, has found an irresistible safety in being adored by two men, brothers shes known since childhood. But when her sister-in-law becomes gravely ill, the triangle that Ninas depended on becomes catastrophically unstable.The life shes known begins rapidly to unravel, and odd things begin to happen which those around her insist are all in her mind. Separated from her husband, she goes on holiday to a tiny Greek island, the honeymoon island of 25 years earlier, and is involved in a serious road accident. There, while recuperating, she becomes close to her doctor, whos also on the point of divorce. A new relationship seems possible - but whats real in the situation, and whats imagined?Pressed in at all sides by other peoples truths, how can Nina be sure of identifying her own? A diary that was her mothers proves to be a turning point. Perhaps romantic love is always a kind of undiagnosed madness. Face to face with the facts behind her assumptions, the time has come for Nina to unravel the taut knot of her past.

One hot summer day, Michael Salter, nineteen-year-old scion of a posh Highland family, disappears. When his childlike aunt claims she drowned him during a fight, the family close ranks. No police. No memorial service. No titbits for village gossips. A decade of deceit begins. Financial TimesThe Salter family orbits around Peattie House, their crumbling Scottish highlands estate filled with threadbare furniture, patrician memories, and all their inevitable secrets. While gathered to celebrate grandmothers seventieth birthday, someone breaks the silence. The web begins to unravel. But what is the white lie? How many others are built upon it? How many lives have been shaped by its shadow? Only one person knows the whole truth. From beyond the grave, Michael loops back into the past until we see, beyond perception and memory, how deeply our decisions resound, and just what is the placeand priceof grandeur.

What happens when you cant see that the man you married is actually the one you love?For her whole life Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers, Paolo, whom she married, and Luca, with whom she was always in love and who remained her best friend throughout her marriage. Now Nina faces the future aloneestranged from Luca and separated from Paolo, she escapes to the tiny Greek island where she honeymooned twenty-five years earlier. After an accident she finds herself in the hospital telling her life story to an eagerly attentive doctor. As their conversations unfold she comes to understand the twists and turns of her romantic life and the unconscious influence of her parents marriage on her own.

Un maravilloso testimonio real sobre el cuidado de nuestros seres queridosAndrea Gillies es una periodista británica que decidió dejarlo todo para dedicarse a cuidar a su suegra, Nancy, con principios de alzheimer, en una vieja casa en el norte de Escocia.Las amapolas del olvidoes el relato estremecedor, enternecedor, maravillosamente bien narrado, de su experiencia como cuidadora, como persona que se dedica integramente al bienestar de otro y a intentar ayudarle a vivir y a morir. La historia de Andrea y Nancy y su dia a dia (unas veces comico, otras tragico) compone un extraordinario diario novelado que incluye reflexiones sobre el ser, la falta de pasado o el funcionamiento de la mente y alberga toda una leccion de humanidad.

Andrea Gillies es una periodista británica que decidió dejarlo todo para dedicarse a cuidar a su suegra, Nancy, con principios de alzhéimer, en una vieja casa en el norte de Escocia.Las amapolas del olvido es el relato estremecedor, enternecedor, maravillosamente bien narrado, de su experiencia como cuidadora, como persona que se dedica integramente al bienestar de otro y a intentar ayudarle a vivir y a morir. La historia de Andrea y Nancy y su dia a dia (unas veces comico, otras tragico) compone un extraordinario diario novelado que incluye reflexiones sobre el ser, la falta de pasado o el funcionamiento de la mente y alberga toda una leccion de humanidad.