Пэт Баркер - аудиокниги

Мировая история обычно рассказывается мужчинами - и всегда с их точки зрения. Ведь творили ее именно они - мужчины, герои и титаны духа. И почти никто не вспоминает, что рожали и воспитывали этих титанов обычные женщины, а свои подвиги все герои совершали в основном ради них, или из-за них, или во имя них. Но и страдали от мужских деяний в основном тоже они… Когда греческая царица Елена была захвачена троянцами и увезена из Спарты, под стены Трои приплыло несметное греческое войско. Долгие годы осаждали они город, разоряя его окрестности. Брисеида тоже была царицей. Теперь она - рабыня и наложница Ахилла, великого героя, вырезавшего всю…

Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, their manes and tails on fire...'

London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden.

Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art, before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, they now find themselves caught in another war, this time at home. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation. Old loves and obsessions re-surface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice.

Double Vision follows Kate, a sculptor whose photojournalist husband is killed in Afghanistan, and Stephen, a journalist who, after covering September 11 with Kate's husband and then being betrayed by his wife, has determined to retire to a small town and write a book about violence. When the two meet, the coincidence of their lives, one of which involves Kate's disturbing new studio assistant, and sinister events force Stephen to act instinctively, violently, and to face painful revelations about himself.