A page-turning and bittersweet novel following Daniel and his troubled marriage with Rosie, and the very different lives of her three sisters, as they navigate the period between the First and Second World Wars.
Louis de Berni res is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.
De Bernieres is a singular, cherishable voice * Mail on Sunday
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Richly enjoyable...Written with such vitality...many readers will
read it straight through forgetting whatever it was they should
have been doing instead of reading * Scotsman *
A breathless, often heart-tugging tale of love, loss, guilt and
regret * Sunday Express *
This book made me laugh, made me mad, made me cry -- Rose Shepherd
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'[de Bernieres] balances humour and tragedy in a novel that
succeeds largely because Daniel is such a compelling and
sympathetic character -- Vanessa Berridge * Daily Express *
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