The Crimson Portrait: A Novel - Hardcover

Shields, Jody

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316785288 ISBN 13: 9780316785280

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 2006

Synopsis

In 1915 England, a young widow, grieving over the loss of her husband on the battlefield, finds her peace shattered when her country estate is transformed into a busy military hospital, but she finds unexpected solace in the person of a young soldier whose face is concealed by bandages and whom she decides to remake in the image of her lost husband. 60,000 first printing.

About this title

Book Description:

The magnificent new historical novel by the author of the bestselling The Fig Eater - a haunting love story that makes unforgettably real the ravages of war.

From the Back Cover:

Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield... The eerie stillness in which she grieves is shattered as her home is transformed into a bustling military hospital. Unsettled by the intrusion of the suffering soldiers, the increasingly fragile widow finds unexpected solace in the company of a wounded officer whose mutilated face, concealed by bandages, she cannot see. But then their affair takes an unexpected turn. Fate presents her with an opportunity: to remake her lover – with the unwitting help of a visionary surgeon and a woman artist – in the image of her lost husband... Inspired by the extraordinary collaboration between surgeons and artists in the treatment of the wounded during the First World War, The Crimson Portrait is a compelling read – as stylish and darkly erotic as Jody Shields’ acclaimed début, The Fig Eater. ‘As full of emotional detail as The English Patient’ Los Angeles Times ‘Dark and atmospheric...wonderfully descriptive and poetic’ USA Today ‘Compelling...exquisitely written...without a false line’ Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316785288
• ISBN 13: 9780316785280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296