A haunting tale of war love & loss from the author of Birdsong & 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 & 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 & 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 & in the end profoundly moving this is Faulks's most remarkable book yet