Synopsis
In her prize-winning first novel, Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of D.H. Lawrence and his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War.
Spring, 1917, and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor: ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy stories.
Into this turmoil come D. H Lawrence and his German wife, Frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Clare Coyne, a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin, John William, who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shock.
Yet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that Zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape. . .
‘A beautiful and inspired novel’ John le Carré
‘Secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make Dunmore’s stories ripple with menace and suspense’ Sunday Times
‘We believe in Clare’s intelligence, talent and passion. A triumph’ Independent on Sunday
Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel, the McKitterick Prize winning, Zennor in Darkness. Her novels, Counting the Stars, Your Blue Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked Heart, Burning Bright, The Siege (Shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002), The Betrayal, A Spell of Winter, House of Orphans, Mourning Ruby and Talking to the Dead, and her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin. Helen is an avid admirer of D. H. Lawrence and his work, she has written the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Lawrence’s short stories The Fox/The Captain’s Doll/The Ladybird.
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141033600
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 320
Published : 25 Oct 2007
Publisher : Fig Tree
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