Everyone Brave is Forgiven

Cleave, Chris

ISBN 10: 147361869X / ISBN 13: 9781473618695

Editore: Sceptre, 2016

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• Titolo: Everyone Brave is Forgiven
• Editore: Sceptre
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 147361869X
• ISBN 13: 9781473618695
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: very good

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Riassunto

'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT

'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday Times

Summer Reading pick - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Top Ten hottest summer reads - Sunday Telegraph
Instant New York Times Bestseller
Evening Standard bestseller
'A cracker' Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016
'His best book to date' Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016
Guardian Literary Highlight of 2016
Independent Best Book to read in 2016
Irish News Top Picks for 2016
Washington Post 20 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2016


An extraordinary tale of love and honour in extreme circumstances, from the multi-award-winning author of THE OTHER HAND.

When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.

Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.

Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is - bewilderingly - made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget.

Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary.

And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams.

In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that, against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs, that change us most.

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An addictive, propulsive read . . . Cleave writes with an engaging intensity, a determination to tackle big moral issues, and a willingness to take risks. (Theo Tait The Sunday Times)

Loosely based on the author's grandparents' stories, this is a superb novel that breathes fresh life into an often brutal scenario. Particularly astute at demonstrating how war seeps into the psyche and changes it, this is beautifully written, funny, gut-wrenching and, above all, honest. (Daily Mail)

'A compelling and finely crafted novel...The Second World War is dangerous territory for a contemporary novelist: the enemies they face include familiarity, cliché, and the reader's knowledge that any number of things happened then that were far stranger than fiction. For a writer to succeed in setting a tale in a period of heightened emotions, they need first to keep their own emotions under close control. Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven.' (Financial Times)

Powerful and moving . . . Cleave's real revisionism exists in the very fabric of his prose. (Lucy Scholes Independent)

Tender and touching. (Eithne Farry Mail on Sunday)

Cleave cements his reputation as a skilful storyteller, and a sensitive chronicler of the interplay between the political and the personal . . . intricately researched and evocatively conveyed. (Hannah Beckerman Observer)

Absorbing [and] sharply paced. (Helen Dunmore Guardian)

Brilliant [and] fearlessly written . . . Thoroughly absorbing. (Claire Allfree Metro)

I was blown away by it. (Woman & Home)

A special book (Good Housekeeping)