When Blackbirds Sing: (the Langton Quartet Vol.4) (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Green, Dorothy; Boyd, Martin

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9780140187632: When Blackbirds Sing: (the Langton Quartet Vol.4) (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140187634 ISBN 13: 9780140187632

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

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At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on their Australian farm to enlist in the British Army. In England, he meets up again with his ex-fiancee Sylvia. He is sent to the Western Front and the brutal reality of war forces him to question the involvements of his past.

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About the Author:

Martin Boyd was born in 1893 into a famous artistic family. At the outbreak of World War I, he sailed for England where he served in the Royal East Kent Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps. Boyd eventually settled in England after the war. His first novel, Love Gods, was published in 1925. Following the international success of Lucinda Brayford in 1946 Boyd decided to return to Australia where he wanted to restore his grandfather's house, but by 1951 he was back in London. In the coming decade he was to write the Langton Quartet: The Cardboard Crown, A Difficult Young Man, Outbreak of Love and When Blackbirds Sing.

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