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389 pages ; 20 cm, On the 1 July, 1913, meet four very different men leading four very different lives: Frank has secured an apprenticeship with Debenhams in London's Regent Street. Now all that he needs to crown his progress is a bicycle and a wife. Benedict is an organist at Gloucester cathedral, with fellow-pupils Ivor Gurney and Ivor Novello. Benedict has synaesthesia - he hears in colour - is uncertain about God, women and his oldest friend, Tom. Jean-Batiste is the fifteen-year-old of a Picardy widow. He makes plans for the day when he will row up-river to the coast and then to England. Meanwhile, he runs errands for the philandering local doctor, Vignon, whose stories he only half believes. Harry is the heir to a baronetcy. Estranged from his family, he has a successful life in New York and is engaged to be married. After eight years abroad he considers himself an American but has never quite persuaded himself to change nationality. 1 July 1916. Exactly three years later, it is just after seven in the morning, there are a few seconds of peace as the guns on the Somme fall silent and larks soar, singing over the trenches. What follows is a day of utter catastrophe in which Br

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Author

Speller, Elizabeth, author

Publisher

London : Virago

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844087815

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.78 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14