Scricciolo: Brevi racconti di Michael Grey, #8
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Non sottovalutare mai i più piccoli ed i più fragili perché, spesso, possono essere i più coraggiosi…
Scricciolo è il ottavo di una serie di racconti che ripercorrono la vita ed i tempi in cui viveva il giovane Michael Grey, egli si rende conto che molte delle caratteristiche e delle abitudini degli uccelli, che ama osservare, si riflettono nelle persone a lui più vicine.
Ambientato a Hastings, nel Sussex, nel dicembre 1960, questa serie riunisce l'affascinante storia ed il folklore di quella zona, esplorando al contempo importanti cambiamenti sociali e culturali in atto durante gli anni '60.
Man mano che Michael Grey apprende di più su questi uccelli, la sua prospettiva sulla vita inizia a cambiare, e le storie servono a ricordare il rapporto critico tra l'umanità e la natura.
Isabella Muir
Isabella is never happier than when she is immersing herself in the sights, sounds and experiences of the 1960s. Researching all aspects of family life back then formed the perfect launch pad for her works of fiction. Isabella rediscovered her love of writing fiction during two happy years working on and completing her MA in Professional Writing and since then has gone to publish five novels, two novellas and a short story collection. Her first Sussex Crime Mystery series features young librarian and amateur sleuth, Janie Juke. Set in the late 1960s, in the fictional seaside town of Tamarisk Bay, we meet Janie, who looks after the mobile library. She is an avid lover of Agatha Christie stories – in particular Hercule Poirot – using all she has learned from the Queen of Crime to help solve crimes and mysteries. As well as three novels, there are three novellas in the series, which explore some of the back story to the Tamarisk Bay characters. Her latest novel, Crossing the Line, is the first of a new series of Sussex Crimes, featuring retired Italian detective, Giuseppe Bianchi who arrives in the quiet seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, to find a dead body on the beach and so the story begins… Isabella’s standalone novel, The Forgotten Children, deals with the emotive subject of the child migrants who were sent to Australia – again focusing on family life in the 1960s, when the child migrant policy was still in force.
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Scricciolo - Isabella Muir
SCRICCIOLO
MICHAEL GREY - RACCONTO 8
Per saperne di più sulla vita di Michael Grey ed i tempi in cui viveva, puoi trovare tutti e dieci i racconti riuniti nel libro, Il Canto degli Uccelli di Michael Grey, disponibile in ebook o copertina flessibile.
Isabella Muir
Traduzione: Anna Maria Martini
INTRODUZIONE
LO SCRICCIOLO È l’ottavo racconto di una serie che approfondisce gli eventi accaduti all’inizio degli anni ’60. Nel corso delle sette storie precedenti abbiamo scoperto molte cose su Michael Grey e ci sono stati presentati alcuni dei suoi amici più cari. Abbiamo anche imparato qualcosa in più su suo padre, ma è in Scricciolo che abbiamo la possibilità di esplorare il personaggio di sua madre, Winifred.
Molte donne dell’età di Winifred, sopravvissute alla Seconda guerra mondiale, si resero conto che avrebbero potuto ottenere più di quanto immaginassero in precedenza. Con così tanti uomini lontani a combattere, le donne hanno assunto ruoli vitali come meccanici, ingegneri, guardie antiaeree, autisti di autobus e autopompe. Svolgevano lavori pericolosi nelle fabbriche di munizioni e aiutavano a costruire navi ed aeroplani. La fine della guerra portò per loro e per gli uomini tornati dal fronte un enorme cambiamento. Gli atteggiamenti erano cambiati, nuovi orizzonti si erano aperti e gli anni che seguirono confermarono che nulla sarebbe stato più come prima.
OTTO GIORNI A NATALE
LA LEGGENDA NARRA che molto tempo fa, in una valle verde e segreta sulla costa meridionale, tutti i tipi di uccelli si riunirono per discutere quale di loro dovesse essere il re. Si decise che l’uccello che avesse volato più in alto avrebbe preso la corona. La maestosa aquila volò molto al di sopra degli altri concorrenti, solo per scoprire, all’ultimo momento, che uno scricciolo aveva cavalcato sulla sua schiena, volando così sopra di