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1444840932

Warlight /

Author: Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-

Publication year: 2019

Language: English

Media class: Large print

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Charnwood,

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 1444840932 9781444840933 (hbk):

Notes:

Standard print edition originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2018.

In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - 'Warlight' is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey that is told in this magnificent novel.

Pages 312 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.