Product Description

Spring, 1917 and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor: ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy-fever. Into this turmoil come DH Lawrence and his German wife Frieda, hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Clare Coyne, a young artist, struggling to console her beloved cousin John William who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell shock. Yet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that Zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape …

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170168 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
'Helen Dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' Daily Mail

'Highly original and beautifully written' Sunday Telegraph

From the Back Cover
'Highly original and beautifully written' Sunday Telegraph

'Helen Dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' Daily Mail

About the Author
Helen Dunmore has published nine novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She is also a poet, children’s novelist and short-story writer.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful writing
This tender, moving, profound book really gets into the minds of young people growing up in the First World War, and the magic and sorrow of first love. It is very atmospheric and profound. The insular feel of a small remote Cornish village at that time, with its inevitable suspicion and mistrust of the unfamiliar and foreign, is very well captured. I have read it three times and got more from it each time. A truly beautiful and atmospheric book with great depth.