Post-WWI friends scattered across continents confront survivor's guilt, fractured marriages, and the looming shadow of another war.
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Post-WWI friends scattered across continents confront survivor's guilt, fractured marriages, and the looming shadow of another war.
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"From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two World Wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I. They were inseparable childhood friends. Some were lost to the war. The others' lives were unimaginably upended, and now, postwar, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany (and, inevitably, back to B...
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Romance & sex
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Central marriage revealed as built on lies; husband seeks solace with other women
Violence & gore
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Rosie draws religion around herself like a carapace amid postwar struggles
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Explores personal impacts of the World Wars and interwar period
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Survivor's grief and guilt among war veterans and families
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