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I was a city girl with humble dreams. Then Dylan O’Dea broke into my flat, held me against the wall, and told me to stay quiet. It was like in the movies, where the universe zeros in on a single scene. I looked into his eyes and knew he was going to change me. For Dylan, the sky was always falling. He showed me how our world is a contradiction of beauty and ugliness. How we choose to ignore the awful and gloss over it with the palatable. How you need just a tiny drop of something unsavoury to create every great scent.

Little Pollyanna, recently orphaned and sent to live with her dour Aunt Polly, surprises everyone with her incredibly optimistic and joyful personality. While her circumstances are glum, especially for one so young, Pollyanna insists on being a bright light in the town—influencing all she comes across. Using the game her father taught her in order to find beauty and hope in everything, she slowly transforms even the hardest of hearts. However, when a seemingly insurmountable tragedy strikes, the town must come together to encourage their little light to shine again.

Just as the lovely Alvina Houghton comes of age, her widowed father’s business starts to dry up. In a drastic effort to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s standing in society, James Houghton buys, of all things, a theater. Her father’s plans and dreams go misunderstood in the town, but the theater itself does quite well...for a time. One of the traveling players employed at the theater, a sensual Italian man named Ciccio, catches Alvina’s eye, and she finds herself intensely attracted to him.

This coming-of-age novel explores themes including religious skepticism, socialism, ennui, English society, sexual relationships, and metaphysics, as George searches for an ideal to which he can devote his life. Like all Wells’s novels, Tono-Bungay abounds with social critique.

Strax norr om Hallavik ligger det lilla området Hallvetet. Här bor Klarne Karlsson, en äldre ungkarl som kör flakmoped och har massor av åsikter om allt här i världen som han dock inte vågar uttrycka högt. När grannen och bäste vännen Verner råkar ut för en olycka och dör vänds Klarnes liv upp och ner. Verners hus säljs och Klarne är orolig för vad de nya ägarna ska göra med byggnaden. Nina och Johanna köper det gamla huset i Hallvetet för att förverkliga Johannas dröm om att driva ett hotell. För att luska ut vad som försiggår tar Klarne hjälp av den sjuttonårige raggaren och EPA-ägaren...