Charlotte Gray

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It would take a mile-long essay to do justice to the many virtues of Sebastian Faulks's wonderful new növel.This riveting account of a young woman's odyssey...deserves the highest praise...masterful narrative and zestful pen-portraits. A beautiful near-masterpiece' JOHN MURRAY, Independenton Sunday In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied Francé on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficiálly, to search for her lover, an English airman missing in action. As the people in the small town of Lavaurette prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the harrowing truth of what took place in 'the dark years' is fínally revealed. 'As he so successfully did with the trenches of the First World War in Birdsong, Faulks similarly evokes the atmosphere of the Second...Novelists are masters of the imagination. Faulks is beyond doubt a master' BRIAN MARTIN, Financial Times 'With Charlotte Gray,... Tovább

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It would take a mile-long essay to do justice to the many virtues of Sebastian Faulks's wonderful new növel.This riveting account of a young woman's odyssey...deserves the highest praise...masterful narrative and zestful pen-portraits. A beautiful near-masterpiece' JOHN MURRAY, Independenton Sunday In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied Francé on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficiálly, to search for her lover, an English airman missing in action. As the people in the small town of Lavaurette prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the harrowing truth of what took place in 'the dark years' is fínally revealed. 'As he so successfully did with the trenches of the First World War in Birdsong, Faulks similarly evokes the atmosphere of the Second...Novelists are masters of the imagination. Faulks is beyond doubt a master' BRIAN MARTIN, Financial Times 'With Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks completes a trilogy of no ve Is set in Francé...it is an impressive body of work, marking Faulks's graduation to one of the most impressive novelists of his generation...tesíifies to the artisíry of a novelist who is growing in authority with every book' DÁVID ROBSON, Sunday Telegraph 'Excrüciatingly powerful' ANTONY BEE VOR, Daily Telegraph 'Charlotte Gray is a worthy successor to Birdsong. It's hard to imagine anyone who enjoyed the last növel not f inding great interest and pleasure in this one' ALAIN DE BOTTON, Express Hl_M^tM, Vissza