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Кэтрин Хэвишем с малых лет жила в роскоши. И каждый день она видела свое имя, написанное огромными буквами на кирпичной стене пивоварни, — основы семейного благосостояния. У Кэтрин было все, кроме одного — любви. Но однажды харизматичный незнакомец украл ее сердце, и она тому была только рада. Пока не наступил день венчания... Этот роман — виртуозное, изобретательное дополнение к знаменитому роману Чарлза Диккенса «Большие надежды». Мисс Хэвишем — один из самых известных и ярких персонажей мировой литературы. До того как расхаживать целыми днями в истлевшем свадебном платье, самая знаменитая невеста в мировой литературе прожила целую…

IN THE TRADITION OF WIDE SARGASSO SEA, HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her. Spry, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse wall—HAVISHAM—a reminder of all she owes to the family name and the family business.

Sent by her father to stay with the Chadwycks, Catherine discovers elegant pastimes to remove the taint of her family's new money. But for all her growing sophistication, Catherine is anything but worldly, and when a charismatic stranger pays her attention, everything—her heart, her future, the very Havisham name—is vulnerable.

In Havisham, Ronald Frame unfurls the psychological trauma that made young Catherine into Miss Havisham and cursed her to a life alone, roaming the halls of the mansion in the tatters of the dress she wore for the wedding she was never to have.

In 1963, Annoele and her mother take a train to Prague to meet her father and to drive back to London across Eastern Europe. Annoele, who is ten, watches the scenery and recalls other journeys taken with her parents. As their travels continue, the family's good fortune seems to be running out.