The Dust that Falls from Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin , which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, So Much Life Left Over and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels , the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef . Klappentext In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood. When the boys end up scattered along the Western Front, Rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War? Zusammenfassung In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?

Product details

• Authors: Louis de Bernieres, Louis de Bernières, Louis De Bernieres, Louis De Bernières
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780099597834
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959783-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; 182 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Kent, FICTION / War & Military, Historical romance, Historical fiction, 20th Century, FICTION / Historical / World War I, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, First World War fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary