The Element of Water

by Stevie Davies

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In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, they can no longer reconcile their friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit. Thirteen years later their children meet.

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Stevie Davies is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Welsh Academy, and Director Of Creative Writing at Swansea University.

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Winwood, Julia (Narrator)

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PR6054 .A89152 .E44Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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