Darkness Falls from the Air (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) - Softcover

Balchin, Nigel

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9780304359691: Darkness Falls from the Air (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304359696 ISBN 13: 9780304359691

Publisher: Phoenix, 2002

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With ostentatious lack of concern, Bill Sarratt, his wife and her lover spend the war wining and dining expensively, occasionally sauntering out into the Blitz with cheerful remarks about the shattered night-life of London�s West End.

But beneath the false insouciance lies the real strain of a war that has firmly wrapped them all in its embrace. Wit may crackle at the same pace as buildings burn, but personal tragedy lurks appallingly close at hand.

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Review:

One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius (John Betjeman)

The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess (Clive James NEW REVIEW)

[An] inexplicably neglected author (THE TIMES)

Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart (Ruth Rendell SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long (Julian Fellowes)

I'd place him up there with Graham Greene (Philippa Gregory)

Darkness Falls from the Air [has] the most perfect ending of any story I've ever read (Patrick McGrath)

A remarkable storyteller (DAILY MAIL)

A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill (NEW STATESMAN)

He tells a story gloriously (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Book Description:

The classic novel of the London Blitz captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.

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