About the book: 2016 / In 2011, the debut novel of the English actress Sarah Winman, “When God Was a Rabbit,” became a real sensation. This “impeccably accurate and heart-stopping, equal parts comic and tragic” story has been translated into several dozen languages ​​and sold millions of copies around the world. Winman had to wait four years for her second book - and her expectations were fully justified. So, meet Divnia Lad. She is 89 years old and has lived in the wilderness off the Cornish coast all her life. Rumor has it that she is a witch and that there were mermaids in her family. Now she spends her days sitting by the water with a telescope and waiting - she doesn’t know what. Until Francis Drake, the namesake and namesake of the famous navigator, appears. After the war, Drake was in no hurry to return home, staying for two years in France. But he promised a dying soldier, whom he met by chance in a field hospital, that he would deliver a letter to his father in Cornwall - and, without knowing how, he ended up in the house of Divnia Lad... For the first time in Russian - an amazing novel about love and death, about the magic of everyday life and about the powerful pull of the sea, about sloe gin and the healing power of the stories we tell.