Chalkhill Blue - Softcover

Masefield, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992852013 ISBN 13: 9780992852016

Verlag: RedDoor Publishing Ltd, 2014

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'Beautifully and lovingly brought to life, with a warmth that makes the flavour of it linger kindly in the mind long after the book is closed.' The Literary Review

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Chalkhill Blue is an award-winning novel of the First World War, and of so much else besides. A grand romance in the English narrative tradition, it spans more than two decades, from the Edwardian heyday through the cataclysm of the 'war to end wars' to the uncertain new world of the 1920s. As a study of deception and self-deception, it traces the lives of two women who have dared to flout the rules of their society, and those of the men who love them; the double strands of a remarkable love story which concludes with a heart-stopping double-twist that makes it literally unforgettable. But far more than a romance, this is also a descriptive novel of tremendous scope, transporting the reader from the parched drove-trails of Queensland to the horse-drawn congestion of Edwardian London; from the snow-capped cordilleras of the Andes to a truly astonishing underground city deep in the chalk of Artois. The timeless downland landscapes of Sussex and the little blue butterfly that haunts them are horrifyingly contrasted with the man-made desolation of their notorious counterparts across the Channel at Arras and on the Somme. Based on a true story, Chalkhill Blue is compulsory reading for anyone with a taste for the authentic and the unusual.

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• Verlag: RedDoor Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0992852013
• ISBN 13: 9780992852016
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336