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From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

'Gripping in the best most exquisite sense of the word' Mail on Sunday

'Utterly compelling... She is a novelist who probes deep revealing what people prefer to keep hidden' Scotsman

'Extraordinary... Without question the best novel I have read this year' Daily Mail

'Brilliant touches of observation an unfailing ear for dialogue... This is a novel that doesn't allow you to miss a sentence' New York Times Book Review

At 101 years old Geordie a proud Somme veteran lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death. But in Nick's family home the dark pressures of the past also encroach on the present. As he and his wife Fran try to unite their uneasy family of step- and half-siblings the discovery of a sinister Victorian drawing reveals the murderous history of their house and casts a violent shadow on their lives...
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

'Gripping in the best most exquisite sense of the word' Mail on Sunday

'Utterly compelling... She is a novelist who probes deep revealing what people prefer to keep hidden' Scotsman

'Extraordinary... Without question the best novel I have read this year' Daily Mail

'Brilliant touches of observation an unfailing ear for dialogue... This is a novel that doesn't allow you to miss a sentence' New York Times Book Review

At 101 years old Geordie a proud Somme veteran lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death. But in Nick's family home the dark pressures of the past also encroach on the present. As he and his wife Fran try to unite their uneasy family of step- and half-siblings the discovery of a sinister Victorian drawing reveals the murderous history of their house and casts a violent shadow on their lives...
Über den Autor
Pat Barker
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780140258981
ISBN-10: 0140258981
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barker, Pat
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Pat Barker
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.1999
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 134462666