ASIN: B00K1NQG2W
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 382
"Lyrically written as Blanchard's own memoir and wonderfully atmospheric, with a brilliantly Gothic setting, FALLODON imagines how the course of history might have changed had one woman lived, instead of died. Mingling politics with a complex and emotional human story, this is in my opinion a very accomplished first novel."Katie Green, Editor, Daniel Goldsmith Associates, Literary ConsultantsAfter a devastating nervous breakdown, priggish young lawyer Arthur Blanchard seeks to recuperate by working as secretary to Sir Edward Grey at Fallodon Hall, Grey's isolated country house on the wet and windswept Northumberland coast. It is 1917 and the Kaiser's armies have nearly overrun the whole of Europe while Britain looks on, besieged inside her island borders, protected by the Royal Navy.Instead of finding peace, Blanchard is thrust into a hotbed of bitterness, deceit and betrayal as he ...
