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Claire McFall is a teacher and lives in the south of Glasgow， Scotland. Ferryman is the most well-known work of hers and has won five worlds awards of literature.

Claire McFalls work is basically， all about first love and difficult decisions. Her novels take straight forward romantic stories and hurl1 them into un usual and extreme settings， blurring2 accepted genre boundaries and creating new sub-genres3 of her own. She then charts4 her characters reactions to these unfamiliar situations and the new and confusing feel ings that influence them in a hyper-real， engaging， deeply poignant5 and literary manner.

Ferryman is a moving love story thats exciting， scary， funny， thought-provoking6 and truly original.

克萊儿·麦克福尔是一名教师，居住在苏格兰格拉斯哥南部。《摆渡人》是她最著名的作品，一举摘得五项世界文学大奖。

克莱儿·麦克福尔的作品本质上都是关于初恋和艰难抉择的。她的小说都是简单直白的爱情故事，一般设置在罕见、极端的情境中，模糊了已有的类别界限，创造出了属于她自己的新的衍生类型。然后她以一种超现实的、迷人而深刻的文学方式跟踪记录她书中角色在不熟悉的情况下的反应，以及困扰他们的新的困惑的感情。

《摆渡人》是一个感人的爱情故事，是一部令人感到兴奋、害怕、有趣、发人深省且真正原创的作品。

The novel is about when a 15-year-old girl Dylan leaves her Scottish home to visit an estranged7 father she hardly knows， she is involved in a train crash. Emerging onto a remote hillside， she is met by a strange but handsome teenage boy called Tristan， who seems to be waiting for her. He is no ordinary teenage boy， but her “ferryman” sent to accompany her across the wasteland， the divide between life and the after-life. So begins a journey where Dylan will learn about herself and what she is capable of.

小说讲述了15岁的女孩迪伦离开苏格兰的家，去看望关系疏远、陌生的父亲时，路上突发火车相撞的事故。她再次出现在一个偏远的山坡，遇见了奇怪却相貌英俊的少年特里斯坦。他似乎特意在那里等待她。特里斯坦不是一个普通的少年，而是她的“摆渡人”，要陪伴着她穿过一片荒原，即生前与死后的分界线。从此，迪伦开始了一段旅程，在途中她将更加了解自己本身与她所拥有的能力。

Notes：

1. hurl v. 丢下；用力投掷

2. blur v. 涂污；使……模糊不清

3. sub-genre n. 次类型

4. chart v. 详细计划；记录；记述；跟踪

5. poignant adj. 尖锐的；辛酸的；深刻的；切中要害的

6. provoking adj. 刺激的；令人生气的，激怒人的

7. estranged adj. 疏远的；不和的