Francis, Clare Homeland ISBN 13: 9780333908143

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It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a land beset by stringent food and job shortages, and a desperate housing crisis. As anti-Polish refugee propaganda reaches its height, Wladyslaw Malinowski, a young veteran of Monte Cassino, now stranded in a resettlement camp on the Somerset Levels, attempts to start a new life on a withy farm in the middle of the wetlands. His taskmaster is Billy Greer, newly demobbed, and itching to escape to a job in London. Stella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Lyndon Hanley, a hero of the Burma Campaign. But Lyndon is troubled, elusive, and ultimately unresponsive. When he goes away again, she finds herself falling for the beguiling and irrepressible Wladyslaw. As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards and coal shortages, people start to go hungry and attitudes harden. Then a death occurs on the wetlands, and it seems Wladyslaw, the outsider, will be held responsible. Homeland is Clare Francis's finest achievement. Atmospheric, rich in description, it depicts with dramatic power the turbulence of a country beggared by war, and the uncertainties of the men returning to it.

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'A deeply atmospheric novel.' -- Daily Mail

'A very fine novel indeed.' -- Independent

'The characters' world envelops the reader completely.' -- Sunday Times

Francis handles betrayal, pragmatism, prejudice, dislocation and disillusionment in a way that is always thought-provoking and never predictable. -- Peter Stanford reviewing 'The Wednesday Book', 27th October, The Independent.
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The Somerset levels. 1946. The war is over, but the personal turmoil has just begun . . .

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  • PublisherMacmillan
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0333908147
  • ISBN 13 9780333908143
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages384
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