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In Desolate Heaven (Hardcover)

by Robert Edric (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (24 July 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 071562783X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0715627839
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,182,860 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Switzerland, Autumn 1919. Elizabeth Mortlake meets Jameson and Hunter, two men striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the war. Drawn increasingly into their lives, she gradually understands what a fragile and potentially violent peace they inhabit.

About the Author

Robert Edric
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 Guardian Fiction Prize), A Lunar Eclipse, The Earth Made of Glass, Elysium, In Desolate Heaven, The Sword Cabinet, The Book of the Heathen (shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award) and Peacetime.
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4.0 out of 5 stars painful and emotional WW1 novel, 13 April 2008
By Roman Clodia (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Desolate Heaven (Paperback)
set in the aftermath of the first world war, this is an extremely emotional and pain-filled book that had me biting my lip not to cry on the tube.

Focusing on a female character who has been left at home and is mourning the death of her brother with her widowed sister-in-law, this explores the trauma of war from a different perspective than the usual WW1 horrors of the trenches (important as that is) viewpoint.

Grief, loss, guilt, and self-harming fill this book making it a difficult but important read. The restraint of the writing matches perfectly the chilly and frigid Swiss air where the two women meet surviving army officers and re-enter the horrors of war.

Edric is a hugely under-rated writer and this, for me, is his best book.
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