In her prize-winning first novel Zennor in Darkness Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of DH Lawrence & his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War Spring 1917 & war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor ships are being sunk by U-boats strangers are treated with suspicion & newspapers are full of spy stories Into this turmoil come D H Lawrence & his German wife Frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London They befriend Clare Coyne a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin John William who is on leave from the trenches & suffering from shell-shock Yet the dark tide of gossip & innuendo means that Zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape ' Helen Dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' Daily Mail'A beautiful & inspired novel' John le Carre' Secrets unspoken words lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make Dunmore's stories ripple with menace & suspense' Sunday Times Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin Zennor in Darkness which won the Mc Kitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award & for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphans; Counting the Stars & The Betrayal which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 She is also a poet children's novelist & short-story writer