Zennor In Darkness

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In her prize-winning first novel Zennor in Darkness" Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of D.H. 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 Dunmores 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 childrens novelist & short-story writer."