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From the author of the acclaimed The Blasphemer, a stunning new novel ranging from forbidden love in World War Two to the painful return of a man kept hostage in today's Afghanistan.
1939: In a hotel room overlooking Piccadilly Circus, two young men are arrested. Charles is court-martialled for ‘conduct unbecoming’; Anselm is deported home to Germany for ‘re-education’ in a brutal labour camp. Separated by the outbreak of war, and a social order that rejects their love, they must each make a difficult choice, and then live with the consequences.
2012: Edward, a diplomat held hostage for eleven years in an Afghan cave, returns to London to find his wife is dead, and in her place is an unnerving double – his daughter, now grown up. Numb with grief, he attempts to re-build his life and answer the questions that are troubling him. Was his wife’s death an accident? Who paid his ransom? And how was his release linked to Charles, his father?
As dark and nuanced as it is powerful and moving, The Road Between Us is a novel about survival, redemption and forbidden love. Its moral complexities will haunt the reader for days after the final page has been turned.
1939: In a hotel room overlooking Piccadilly Circus, two young men are arrested. Charles is court-martialled for ‘conduct unbecoming’; Anselm is deported home to Germany for ‘re-education’ in a brutal labour camp. Separated by the outbreak of war, and a social order that rejects their love, they must each make a difficult choice, and then live with the consequences.
2012: Edward, a diplomat held hostage for eleven years in an Afghan cave, returns to London to find his wife is dead, and in her place is an unnerving double – his daughter, now grown up. Numb with grief, he attempts to re-build his life and answer the questions that are troubling him. Was his wife’s death an accident? Who paid his ransom? And how was his release linked to Charles, his father?
As dark and nuanced as it is powerful and moving, The Road Between Us is a novel about survival, redemption and forbidden love. Its moral complexities will haunt the reader for days after the final page has been turned.
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NIGEL FARNDALE was born and raised in the Yorkshire Dales where he farmed with his father and grandfather, a veteran of the Trenches. He is the author of Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, shortlisted for the Whitbread Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and of The Blasphemer, shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Novel Award. He now lives on the Hampshire-Sussex border with his wife and their three children.
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· The Blasphemer was highly praised for its superb storytelling and ambitious, thoughtful themes: "A fine novel... unforgettable." --The Times
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- PublisherDoubleday UK
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0385619146
- ISBN 13 9780385619141
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages420
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Gebraucht - Wie neu ungelesen, sehr guter Zustand; Rechnung mit MwSt.; unused/unread, very good condition; -From the author of the acclaimed 'The Blasphemer,' a stunning new novel ranging from forbidden love in World War Two to the painful return of a man kept hostage in today's Afghanistan. A powerful dual time-frame novel about forbidden love. In the present, a British hostage is released from ten years in solitary confinement in a hole in the ground in Afghanistan, only to find that his wife is dead and that his feelings for his suddenly grown-up daughter are disturbingly confused. In the past, after two male lovers are arrested in 1939 in a hotel room overlooking Piccadilly Circus, an English soldier must fight his way across wartorn Europe to save his lover from the death camps. With all the elegant prose, cracking suspense and food-for-thought themes of the Costa-shortlisted 'The Blasphemer,' Nigel Farndale's second novel again delivers on all fronts. 432 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # INF1100131958
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