A haunting tale of war, love and loss from the author of Birdsong and A Week
in December. The Sunday Times bestseller. On a small island off the south
coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best
and the worst the twentieth century had to offer - is forced to confront the
events that made up his life. His host is Alexander Pereira, a man who seems
to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for the
past takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems
to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally -
unforgettably - back into the trenches of the Western Front. This moving novel
casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never
fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is
Faulks' most remarkable book yet.
A haunting tale of war, love and loss from the author of Birdsong and A Week
in December. The Sunday Times bestseller. On a small island off the south
coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best
and the worst the twentieth century had to offer - is forced to confront the
events that made up his life. His host is Alexander Pereira, a man who seems
to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for the
past takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems
to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally -
unforgettably - back into the trenches of the Western Front. This moving novel
casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never
fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is
Faulks' most remarkable book yet.
