Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave (9781473618701)

Description - Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

The breathtaking new novel from the multi-award-winning author of

THE OTHER HAND.

'A cracker' Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016

'His best book to date' Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016

Guardian Literary Highlight of 2016

Independent Best Book to read in 2016

Irish News Top Picks for 2016

Washington Post 20 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2016

When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.

Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.

Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is - bewilderingly - made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget.

Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary.

And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams.

In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that, against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs, that change us most.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9781473618701
ISBN-10: 1473618703

Classification:
Fiction & related items »
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Format: Paperback / softback
(236mm x 174mm x 34mm)
Pages: 448
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publish Date: 21-Apr-2016
Country of Publication: United Kingdom

Other Editions - Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

Paperback / softback
(January 2017)

Hardback
(April 2016)

Paperback / softback
(April 2016)

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Author Biography - Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave's debut novel INCENDIARY won the Somerset Maugham Award, among others. His second, the Costa-shortlisted THE OTHER HAND, was a global bestseller and sat in the New York Times Top Ten for over a year (under the US title, Little Bee). Both books were shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. He lives in Kingston-upon-Thames with his wife and three children, and welcomes readers at facebook.com/ChrisCleaveBooks, www.chriscleave.com and twitter.com/chriscleave.

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