Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future.
Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he's looking for somewhere to ride out what's ahead.
He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven. Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby - including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area; a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill; an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse.
As life in the cities gets more complicated,and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart,Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside. His new way of life brings him back in tune with his teenage children,his ex-wife,and his own sense of who he is. He also grows close to Eva,energetic and enchanting,who is committed to her own quest for love and meaning.
In this entertaining and heart-warming novel Louis de Bernieres pokes fun at modern mores,and makes us reconsider what is really precious in our short and precarious lives.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781787303997Number of pages: 304Weight: 517 gDimensions: 240 x 162 x 29 mm
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'De Bernieres is a singular,cherishable voice'- Mail on Sunday
'Louis de Bernieres is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... he has only to look into his world,one senses,for it to rush into reality,colours and touch and taste'- Evening Standard
Southwold Literary Festival
SouthwoldSaturday 4th November 10:00 - Sunday 5th November 17:00
Join us for a brand new Southwold Literary Festival featuring talks by many great authors such as Ben Aaronovitch,Louis de Bernieres Esther Freud and John Boyne.
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Immortalised as the creator of the bestselling global phenomenon Captain Corelli's Mandolin,British author Louis de Bernières was born in London and selected as one of Granta's list of'Best Young British Novelsts'in 1993. Known for his immersive,picaresque fiction,de Bernières first novels were a loosely connected sequence set in Latin America: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts,Seor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The success of Corelli ensured he need never work again but he followed the novel a decade later with Birds Without Wings; a Turkish epic inspired by War and Peace de Bernières said of it''I'm one of those writers who's always going to be trying to write War and Peace: failing,obviously,but trying.'More recently his works have included A Partisan's Daughter,The Dust That Falls From Dreams and 2018's much-anticipated So Much Life Left Over.
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