About the book: 2020 / Richard Adams conquered the world with his first book, “Dwellers of the Hills.” This novel, initially rejected by all major publishing houses, fell in love with millions of readers around the world, was filmed twice and took its rightful place alongside “The Little Prince” by A. Saint-Exupéry, “The Seagull Called Jonathan Livingston” by R. Bach, “Wine from dandelions" by R. Bradbury and "Flowers for Algernon" by D. Keyes. "The action of "The Girl on the Swing" takes place in our days, but it would be correct to compare this gothic story about omnipotent but doomed love with the works of classical romanticism or with "Rebecca" “Daphne du Maurier,” wrote the London Review of Books. So, meet Alan Desland. An Oxford graduate, a shy and apathetic polymath, he works in his father's antique porcelain shop and tries to make sense of a series of seemingly paranormal episodes of his childhood and youth. One day he goes on a business trip to Copenhagen, where he meets the beautiful stenographer Karin, the embodiment of all-consuming femininity, as mysterious as a pagan goddess. Alan falls under her spell - but along with new happiness, something mysterious and sinister comes into his life... The film adaptation of “The Girl on the Swing” was directed by Gordon Hessler, director of “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”, as well as the television series “Little Women” (based on the novel of the same name Louisa May Alcott) and "Unexpected Stories" (based on the stories of Roald Dahl); the main roles were played by Meg Tilly and Rupert Fraser. For the first time in Russian!