Parade's End

Parade's End

Summary


'A tour de force of writing and intelligence' A.S. Byatt

Discover one of the greatest first world war novels.

Christopher Tietjens has long loved the beautiful young suffragette Valentine, but the pair are held apart by Christopher's loyalty to his wife Sylvia, and to a set of principles which belong to an old world, and which are about to be swallowed up in the mud and chaos of the Western Front.

Reviews

  • The Parade's End series of novels is a tour de force of writing and intelligence
    A.S. Byatt, Guardian

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Ford Madox Ford

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