Ruth Gilmartin, a young graduate student at the University of Oxford, suddenly learns that her mother, which people think that harmless-looking old lady, not the one who claims to be... One of the best novels of William Boyd, a living classic of English literature.
William Boyd was born March 7, 1952 in Accra (Ghana). He grew up in Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria, where he worked his parents, teacher and doctor. When William was nine years old, he was sent to school in Scotland. Then he studied at Glasgow University and Oxford College of Jesus, where in 1975 he became a doctor of philosophy with a thesis on the works of Shelley. A short time podvizalis as a TV critic in the magazine "New Statesman", Boyd began to teach English at Oxford College of St. Hilda. The first book by William Boyd, "a Good man in Africa" was published in 1981 and immediately won the prestigious prize, the Somerset Maugham award and Outbreak prize for best debut novel, and it was written just three months. Later in this novel he wrote the screenplay for the same film, released in 1994. Then came the novels "the ice-cream War" (1982), "Stars and stripes" (1984), "School ties" (1985), "the New confessions" (1987), "Brazzaville beach" (1990), "Blue noon" (1993), "Battleship" (1998). Almost every book of Boyd became an event in English literature, and if not received literary awards, was among the main contenders. So who in 2002, a new novel by William Boyd - "the Heart of every man" ("Any Human Heart") was among the nominees for the Pulitzer prize. In addition, the writer known as a successful writer in this capacity, he participated in the creation of the film "Good and bad" (1983), "Dutch girls" (1985), "Tune in tomorrow" (1990), "Mister Johnson (1990), "Chaplin" (1992), "Sword of honour (2001), "Battleship" (2001). In 1999, at his script he made France the film "the Ditch".
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