In Desolate Heaven
by Robert Edric
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A brilliant, atmospheric novel about the emotional aftermath of the First World War. Autumn 1919. Elizabeth Mortlake, companion to her widowed sister-in-law, meets Jameson and Hunter, two ex-officers striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the war - one still hospitalized and awaiting the judgement of a court martial, the other seeking a more personal atonement for his unimaginable sins. Drawn increasingly into their lives here at the calm centre show more of the changing world, she gradually understands what a fragile peace they now inhabit, and how the ideals and bonds which once sustained and kept the two men alive, now threaten to destroy them completely. show lessTags
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Robert Edric is the author of several novels, including The Book of the Heathen. He currently lives in East Yorkshire
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- Original publication date
- 1997
- Important events
- World War I
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- Dutch, English
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