Sanjida O'Connell ist eine Schriftstellerin, die für ihre fesselnden Erzählungen gefeiert wird, die sich mit der menschlichen Psyche auseinandersetzen. Ihre Romane erforschen komplexe Beziehungen und die Vielschichtigkeit menschlichen Verhaltens, oft mit einem scharfen Blick für psychologische Tiefe. Durch ihre ausgeprägte erzählerische Stimme lädt sie die Leser in Welten ein, die sowohl zum Nachdenken anregen als auch emotional berühren, und beleuchtet die subtilen Arten, wie wir uns verbinden und täuschen.
Our lust for sugar has changed the shape of the world economically culturally and scoially. Sanjida O' Connell reveals, in accessible and scintillating prose, the extraordinary and illuminating story of sugar's journey from a grass to world domination.
Niall, a zoologist, goes to Northern Ireland under the pretext of studying magpies. What he's researching, in fact, is nothing less than the science of free will, the genetics of fate and destiny. But as he roams the seashore observing the lives of his chosen birds, he becomes increasingly troubled by half-remembered events, by apparently familiar faces, and by the names of people long dead.Niall is drawn into the complex and tightly knit lives of the villagers and into relationships with Edie, an ambitious and beautiful young chef, and with Nadia, the exotic daughter of the local squire. As he becomes more obsessed with his magpies, and with Edie and Nadia, his grip on reality starts to weaken and fragments of memory from his lost past return. On the brink of a major new scientific discovery, he finally becomes aware of the magnitude of his loss.
Sandra is caught in the complex web of a relationship with her unpredictable boyfriend Corin. But it is her research as a zoologist, into the emotions of chimpanzees, that forces her to confront her own true feelings towards Corin.