A taut and gripping thriller- King Edward VIII is on the throne and keen to broker peace at any cost - WWII could turn out very differently...
D.J. Taylor's novels include English Settlement, which won a
Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass and Derby Day, both of which were
long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and Kept- A Victorian
Mystery, a Publishers' Weekly Book of the Year. His other books
include After the War- The Novel and England Since 1945, Thackeray,
Orwell- The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Prize, and
Bright Young People- The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940.
He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore, and
their three sons.
'A writer of formidable accomplishment' Washington Post
'Taylor is marking out a territory as distinct and disturbing as
Greeneland, with the same imperative towards moral inquisition and
a flatlands melancholy that is all his own' Hilary Mantel, Sunday
Times
'Taylor is a felicitous, intelligent writer' Herald
Compulsively enjoyable
*Independent*
A tense phoney-war thriller, as evocative in its period
representations as it is compelling in its denouement
*Mail on Sunday*
With its meticulous period detail and its dissection of the English
class system at work, this new novel from the author of the highly
accomplished Derby Day proves that good historical fiction does not
have to take place in a past that actually happened
*Sunday Times*
It is much harder to show historical change occurring through
incremental creep rather than sudden swerves of direction. That DJ
Taylor’s novel achieves this so well makes in an unusually smart
and subtle addition to the genre… Gripping entertainment
*Daily Telegraph*
A splendid “what if” thriller… Terrific
*Daily Mail*
This galloping, might-have-been thriller… Taylor cleverly uses
genuine historical details to make the nightmare horribly
convincing
*Saga*
A highly successful literary thriller with one eye on a shocking
chapter in the nation’s genuine history and another on the
potential for authorial invention
*Independent on Sunday*
Offers a chilling alternative view of the direction the Second
World War might have taken had the man who later became the Duke of
Windsor…remained on the British throne
*UK Regional Press*
A crafty and pitch-perfect novel of Nazi sympathizers and secret
agents in wartime London
*Independent*
It is Taylor’s achievement to have written a tense, page-turning
thriller, enriched by acute social observation, within which
unfolds a subtle meditation upon where the quest for peace ends and
the path to treason begins
*The Times*
A highly successful thriller
*Oldie*
The novel is much more than an intriguing exercise in alternative
history… This is as skilful and enjoyable a novel as you can ask
for, the work of a master-craftsman
*Scotsman*
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