In Desolate Heaven
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:1st May '12
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A brilliant, atmospheric novel about the emotional aftermath of the First World War.
Elizabeth Mortlake, companion to her widowed sister-in-law, meets Jameson and Hunter, two ex-officers striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the war - one still hospitalized and awaiting the judgement of a court martial, the other seeking a more personal atonement for his unimaginable sins.Autumn 1919. Elizabeth Mortlake, companion to her widowed sister-in-law, meets Jameson and Hunter, two ex-officers striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the war - one still hospitalized and awaiting the judgement of a court martial, the other seeking a more personal atonement for his unimaginable sins. Drawn increasingly into their lives here at the calm centre of the changing world, she gradually understands what a fragile peace they now inhabit, and how the ideals and bonds which once sustained and kept the two men alive, now threaten to destroy them completely.
'It is extraordinary that Robert Edric's fiction isn't more widely acclaimed...true to its title this is a work of bleak accomplishment' * The Sunday Times *
'The agony, the despair and the madness of war, with its troubled aftermath, emerge with a fierceness and starkness...a fine achievement, not swiftly forgotten' * Scotland on Sunday *
'Like one of those dreams where you can come awake, and then fall asleep and continue where you left off' * The Times *
'I would defy anyone not to sit down and read to the end' * Literary Review *
Edric writes a spare craggy prose . . . makes much contemporary fiction that concentrates on the urban wastes of today seem self-indulgent, sentimental and frivolous -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *
ISBN: 9780552778770
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
Weight: 277g
400 pages