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'And to my daughter in France, I bequeath the remainder of my Estate'
These words, read from the will of Irish academic Richard Kirwan, come as a complete surprise to his grieving family. Solange de Valnay's perfectly ordered world is shattered when she discovers the identity of her true father for the first time. She loves the man who has always been 'Papa' and the Languedoc vineyard in which she had the happiest of childhoods; Celine, her adored mother, is dead. But the truth of Richard Kirwan's liaison with her mother cannot remain buried, and the Kirwan children and their half-sister must overcome their differences and confront the past that unites them.
What emerges is an extraordinary tale of an impossible but irresistible love affair, of passion and blind heroism, of sacrifices made for love and honour and of four families whose resistance to the German forces occupying France during WWII binds them across the borders and cultures through war and peace.
These words, read from the will of Irish academic Richard Kirwan, come as a complete surprise to his grieving family. Solange de Valnay's perfectly ordered world is shattered when she discovers the identity of her true father for the first time. She loves the man who has always been 'Papa' and the Languedoc vineyard in which she had the happiest of childhoods; Celine, her adored mother, is dead. But the truth of Richard Kirwan's liaison with her mother cannot remain buried, and the Kirwan children and their half-sister must overcome their differences and confront the past that unites them.
What emerges is an extraordinary tale of an impossible but irresistible love affair, of passion and blind heroism, of sacrifices made for love and honour and of four families whose resistance to the German forces occupying France during WWII binds them across the borders and cultures through war and peace.
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Review:
"Full of intrigue, love, passion and anger" (Irish Independent)
"A singular literary event - a cosmopolitan novel" (Observer)
"Stiff upper lips are melted by passion in this story of wartime valour and present day curiosity" (Irish Tatler)
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"A singular literary event - a cosmopolitan novel" (Observer)
"Stiff upper lips are melted by passion in this story of wartime valour and present day curiosity" (Irish Tatler)
A terrific page-turner - a summer novel which really is 'The perfect holiday read' Independent on Sunday
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1843430126
- ISBN 13 9781843430124
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages464
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