In Desolate Heaven
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In Desolate Heaven

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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 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.

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Weight 0.277 kg
Dimensions 2.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

400
Publisher

Year Published

2012-5-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

055277877X
About The Author

Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (1985 James Tait Black Prize winner), A New Ice Age (1986 runner-up for the 1986 Guardian Fiction Prize), The Book of the Heathen (shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award), Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002), Gathering the Water (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and In Zodiac Light, which was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010. He lives in Yorkshire.

'It is extraordinary that Robert Edric's fiction isn't more widely acclaimed…true to its title this is a work of bleak accomplishment'
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'The agony, the despair and the madness of war, with its troubled aftermath, emerge with a fierceness and starkness…a fine achievement, not swiftly forgotten'

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