Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci ...

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes.

As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci ...

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes.

As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon & a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci ...

They were called the Daffodil Girls, spirited & bright, enduring, loving & dancing their way through the gay & desperate twenties. April, who married the tortured & sexually suspect David Daker, convinced she could blot out his memories of the trenches. May, pregnant by her handsome music-hall star husb&, who refused to settle down & become a family man. March, loved & betrayed by the man who had fathered her child, & who still wanted her, in spite of everything. ...

Twistleton is a village untouched by time, taking its rhythms from the countryside around. Daisy, Jean, Freddie & their friends Aurelia & Laura are devoted to the place, so that when war breaks out Twistleton becomes the embodiment of everything for which they are fighting. For the previous generation the new conflict causes private despair, increased when Twistleton is requisitioned by the Army. Turfed out of their houses, the villagers take refuge at the Hall.

It is here that evacuees from the East End, butler & countryman weld together to fight common enemies, whether drunken troops in the village, the bombs from the air, or rationing & the bitter weather. They all know only victory will do. With death haunting their every moment, love is their one all-too-fleeting consolation

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Twistleton is a village untouched by time, taking its rhythms from the countryside around. Daisy, Jean, Freddie & their friends Aurelia & Laura are devoted to the place, so that when war breaks out Twistleton becomes the embodiment of everything for which they are fighting. For the previous generation the new conflict causes private despair, increased when Twistleton is requisitioned by the Army. Turfed out of their houses, the villagers take refuge at the Hall.

It is here that evacuees from the East End, butler & countryman weld together to fight common enemies, whether drunken troops in the village, the bombs from the air, or rationing & the bitter weather.

Many of the women are forced to leave Twistleton to work in factories or hospitals, but whether walking behind a plough or nursing some injured airman, they all know only victory will do. With death haunting their every moment, love is their one all-too-fleeting consolation



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Twistleton is a village untouched by time, taking its rhythms from the countryside around. Daisy, Jean, Freddie & their friends Aurelia & Laura are devoted to the place, so that when war breaks out Twistleton becomes the embodiment of everything for which they are fighting. For the previous generation the new conflict causes private despair, increased when Twistleton is requisitioned by the Army. Turfed out of their houses, the villagers take refuge at the Hall.

It is here that evacuees from the East End, butler & countryman weld together to fight common enemies, whether drunken troops in the village, the bombs from the air, or rationing & the bitter weather. They all know only victory will do. With death haunting their every moment, love is their one all-too-fleeting consolation

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