Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
‘Since reading Warlight I’ve not been able to get it out of my head, nor wanted to. Ondaatje, best known perhaps for The English Patient, writes so beautifully, with such depth and dreamlike melancholy – I was completely lost in the life and memories of Nathanial, the central character. The story starts in London in 1945. Nathaniel and his sister are mysteriously abandoned by their parents and left in the care of a dubious friend, through which they fall into an eccentric crew of criminal misfits. All is not as it seems, and Nathanial, as an adult, starts to uncover just exactly what happened to his mother. Intelligence agencies, code breaking, puzzles and mysteries – this book has everything. Give it for anyone that loves a good story. I’ll be giving a copy to my dad.’
Chosen by Hattie Adam-Smith, Brand Director