Martin Davies

The Year After (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

DECEMBER 1919. Tom Allen, uncomfortable in London after five years in uniform, receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Hannesford Court.

It's almost as if nothing has changed. Cards in the library after dinner. The Boxing Day shoot. The New Year ball. Margot.

But Tom hasn't forgotten the professor. A strange meeting in Germany has raised a question in his mind: in all his visits to Hannesford before the War, all those years observing the glittering life of its owners, how much did he ever really see?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848947276
• Artikelnr.: 39230537

Autorenporträt

Martin Davies grew up in North West England. All his writing is done in cafes, on buses or on tube trains, and an aversion to laptops means that he always works in longhand. He has travelled widely, including in the Middle East and India, and substantial parts of THE UNICORN ROAD were written while travelling through Sicily. He works as a consultant in the broadcasting industry. Translation rights in Martin's books have now been sold in Germany, Sweden, Poland, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Korea, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Holland.

Rezensionen

Martin Davies' book intelligently takes apart the myth of a pre-war idyll and locates conflict and suffering in England itself. Independent on Sunday