The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Open House & Never Change.

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Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it. We Are At War is the story of five everyday folk, who, living on the brink of chaos, recorded privately on paper their most intimate hopes & fears.

Pam Ashford, a woman who keeps her head when all around are losing theirs, writes with comic genius about life in her Glasgow shipping office. Christopher Tomlin, a writing-paper salesman for whom business is booming, longs to be called up like his brother. Eileen Potter organises evacuations for flea-ridden children, while mother-of-three Tilly Rice is frustrated to be sent to Cornwall. & Maggie Joy Blunt tries day-by-day to keep a semblance of her ordinary life.

Entering their world as they lived it, each diary entry is poignantly engrossing. Amid the tumultuous start to the war, these ordinary British people are by turns apprehensive & despairing, spirited & cheerful
- & always fascinatingly, vividly real.




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This book describes how a group of people, who had lived & suffered together in the 13th century, re-assembled in the 20th century in a limited area in the west of Engl&.

Independently of each other these people tuned in, with the piercing accuracy of searchlights, to the same tragic events in the Languedoc in the years 1242 to 1244.

One of the most remarkable features of the book is the description of sketches made by a child of seven. It is clear that in these she too was remembering the same tragic years.

Of this circle of people alive in the 20th century, the author has discovered the mediaeval names & roles of seven of the eight involved.

Though born with a highly developed critical faculty the author regards the material revealed to him as unique. He has written this book to record faithfully an astounding experience & to fulfil the obligation laid on him to provide proof, not only of group reincarnation, but of the indestructibility of the human psyche.







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