ISBN: 9780007233069
Release Date: 16 Oct 2006
Average rating:   (read by 11 members)

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Categories: Modern fiction

Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties, reissued to accompany Philippa Gregory's new bestselling novel, The Last Boleyn. Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She's determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she's drawn to his wealth and status. In Lily he sees his salvation -- from the past, from the nightmare, from the guilt at surviving the Flanders plains where so many were lost. But it's a dream that cannot last. Lily has no intention of leaving her singing career. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen's nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning!

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candc320
Rated it   6 months ago
My least favorite of Philippa Gregory's work. Failed to pull me in.

axiak
Rated it   9 months ago
A good book about life after the war.

fairyfish
Rated it   4 days ago

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