In Desolate Heaven - Hardcover
Switzerland, Autumn 1919. Elizabeth Mortlake meets Jameson and Hunter, two men striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the war. Drawn increasingly into their lives, she gradually understands what a fragile and potentially violent peace they inhabit.
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"'It is extraordinary that Robert Edric's fiction isn't more widely acclaimed...true to its title this is a work of bleak accomplishment'" (Peter Kemp The Sunday Times)
"'The agony, the despair and the madness of war, with its troubled aftermath, emerge with a fierceness and starkness...a fine achievement, not swiftly forgotten'" (Tom Adair Scotland on Sunday)
"'Like one of those dreams where you can come awake, and then fall asleep and continue where you left off'" (Robert Nye The Times)
"'I would defy anyone not to sit down and read to the end'" (Jane Gardam Literary Review)
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"'The agony, the despair and the madness of war, with its troubled aftermath, emerge with a fierceness and starkness...a fine achievement, not swiftly forgotten'" (Tom Adair Scotland on Sunday)
"'Like one of those dreams where you can come awake, and then fall asleep and continue where you left off'" (Robert Nye The Times)
"'I would defy anyone not to sit down and read to the end'" (Jane Gardam Literary Review)
A brilliant, atmospheric novel about the emotional aftermath of the First World War.
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 071562783X
- ISBN 13 9780715627839
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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