Flatlands

Klappentext 'Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time... Full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality' Amanda Craig'Compelling and beautifully intimate. A classic piece of storytelling' Toby Litt'A haunting and lyrical novel' Maggie Brookes, author of The Prisoner's WifeIn the depths of wartime, a friendship takes wingFreda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from the East End, sent to live with a farming family deep in the lonely landscape of the Fens. Philip is an artist and a conscientious objector, living in a remote lighthouse on the shores of the Wash. The two outcasts come together amid the wild beauty of the wetlands, beneath skies filled with migrating birds and crisscrossed by Nazi bombers. As the world is consumed by war, they form a friendship that will change the course of both their lives.

About the author

Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. She has published three acclaimed novels and numerous collections of poetry, and was commissioned to create London's largest public art poem at Waterloo. Her fourth novel, Flatlands, is forthcoming from ONE.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Hubbard, Hubbard Sue
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781911590743
• ISBN: 978-1-911590-74-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / War & Military, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Fiction: general and literary, South and South East England, South and South East England: Places of interest, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater