Small Wars - Hardcover

Jones, Sadie

3.4

1,550 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061929883 ISBN 13: 9780061929885

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

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After career soldier Hal Treherne is transferred to the British colony of Cyprus, his wife, Clara, and two daughters follow, but Clara becomes fearful of her increasingly distant husband and the atrocities that take him further from her. By the award-winning author of The Outcast. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

`stylish fiction follow-up to Orange Prize-shortlisted The Outcast' --Sunday Times

`this is an unforgiving, far from comfortable read, but a very compelling one'. -- Metro

`Poignant and compelling' -- Marie Claire

'Here Jones's talent really shows...In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs.' -- Literary Review

`Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping'.
--Metro

"An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers" --Saturday Telegraph Review

'Small Wars is a gripping account of emotional disintegration...A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity'
-- Sunday Telegraph Books

`Here Jones's talent really shows...In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs. --Times Literary Supplement

`Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping'. --Metro

"An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers" --Telegraph Review

Book Description:

From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Outcast (over 400K copies sold), a blistering new novel about what happens when everything a man believes in begins to crumble...

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