It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But 'home' is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-full of fly-blown taxidermy and dependent relatives, the latter clinging to a way of life that has gone forever. And worst of all - following the death of his heroic older brother - Valentine is now Sir Valentine, and is responsible for the whole bloody place. To Valentine, it's a millstone, to Zena Baxter, who has never really had a home before being evacuated there with her small daughter, it's a place of wonder and sentiment, somewhere that she can't bear to leave. But Zena has been living with a secret, and the end of the war means she has to face a reckoning of her own...Funny, sharp and touching, Small Bomb at Dimperley is both a love story and a bittersweet portrait of an era of profound loss, and renewal.
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ISBN | 9780857528292 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / Feminist, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II, FICTION / Women, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fester Einband |
Verlag | Random House UK |
Jahr | 20240905 |
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