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"A new novel from the Booker Prize winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz (her first portrayal of World War II) and reconfirms her place in the very top rank of British novelists. London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant works as an air-raide warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2016307 pages · 9780385537728
- Other · English · 2016Penguin Books, Limited · 272 pages · 9780241966037
- Other · English · 2016Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 1 pages · 9781504686075
- Other · English · 2015Penguin Books Ltd · 272 pages · 9780241146064
FictionHistoryFICTION / LiteraryFICTION / War & MilitaryFICTION / HistoricalNew York Times reviewedFiction, historical, generalWorld war, 1939-1945, fiction













