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The new novel from Elizabeth Speller, author of the bestselling Richard & Judy pick The Return of Captain John Emmett, is captivating and elegant, telling of the tragedies of war as lives cross, dreams are shattered and futures altered as the hours pass on one fateful day during the Great War.
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Elizabeth Speller lived in Berlin, Rome and Paris before reading Classics at Cambridge. She has written for publications as varied as the Independent, Financial Times, Big Issue and Vogue and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Warwick. She divides her time between Gloucestershire and Greece.
Her debut novel was the bestselling The Return of Captain John Emmett, which was both an Orange New Writers pick and a Richard & Judy Summer Book Club selection. This was followed by The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton, which also featured Laurence Bartram.
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- EditoreVirago
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1844087808
- ISBN 13 9781844087808
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine400
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