Strange Meeting (Large Print Edition) - Softcover
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.
'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .'
Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle. As the pair approach the front line, to the proximity of death and destruction, their strange friendship deepens. But each knows that soon they will be separated . . .
'A remarkable feat of imaginative and descriptive writing' The Times
'The feeling of men under appalling stress at a particular moment in history is communicated with almost uncanny power' Sunday Times
'Truly Astonishing' Daily Telegraph
Susan Hill's novels include I'm the King of the Castle and Mrs de Winter, a sequel to Du Maurier's Rebecca. She is also well known for her children's books (including Can It Be True?, which won the Smarties Prize). She has written non-fiction and autobiography and is a regular broadcaster and reviewer. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanely Wells, and they live in a Gloucestershire village from which she runs a small publishing company called Long Barn Books. You can see her website at www.susan-hill.com.
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John Hilliard, a young subaltern returning t o the Western Front after a period of sick leave back in an England blind to the horrors of the First World War, finds h is battalion tragically altered. David Barton is as yet unto uched and untried by war. '
About the Author:
Susan Hill's novels include I'm the King of the Castle and Mrs de Winter, a sequel to Du Maurier's Rebecca. She is also well known for her children's books (including Can It Be True?, which won the Smarties Prize). She has written non-fiction and autobiography and is a regular broadcaster and reviewer. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanely Wells, and they live in a Gloucestershire village from which she runs a small publishing company called Long Barn Books. You can see her website at www.susan-hill.com.
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- PublisherChivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0745189008
- ISBN 13 9780745189000
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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