
' An intensely moving & atmospheric novel
- subtle powerful & beautifully written It's a devastating journey at times but a compelling one' Antonia Hodgson author of The Devil in the Marshalsea A deeply compelling & poignant story that like the novels of Pat Barker or Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong dramatises the tragic lessons of war the significance of belonging & of memory
- without which we become lost even to ourselves Spring 1945 A man wakes in a field in a country he does not know Injured & confused he pulls himself to his feet & starts to walk & so sets out on an extraordinary journey in search of his home his past & himself His name is Owen A war he has only a vague memory of joining is in its dying days & as he tries to get back to England he becomes caught up in the flood of refugees pouring through Europe Among them is a teenage boy Janek & together they form an unlikely alliance as they cross battle-worn Germany When they meet a troubled young woman tempers flare & scars are revealed as Owen gathers up the shattered pieces of his life No one is as he remembers not even himself
- how can he truly return home when he hardly recalls what home is?