Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s,attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them,and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day.
However,even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to escape the ties of home and the yearning for fulfilment that threatens their marriage. Back in England,Rosie's three sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches for family,purpose and happiness.
These are precarious times,and they find themselves using unconventional means to achieve their desires. Around them the world is changing,and when Daniel finds himself in Germany he witnesses events taking a dark and forbidding turn.
By turns humorous and tragic,gripping and touching, So Much Life Left Over follows a cast of unique and captivating characters as they navigate the extraordinary interwar years both in England and abroad. Echoing the focus on war and its aftermath that De Bernierès evoked in his global bestseller Captain Corelli's Mandolin,this is a novel of lives changed and re-cast by time and circumstance. As the Scotsman writes,this is'a richly enjoyable,agreeably old-fashioned... unusual novel'that holds readers through the twists and turns of a changing world.'I would guess that many readers,once they have launched themselves into it,will read it straight through,forgetting whatever it was they should have been doing instead of reading'.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784705886Number of pages: 288Weight: 232 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
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'De Bernieres is a singular,cherishable voice.'- The Mail on Sunday
'Richly enjoyable...it is written with such vitality....I would guess that many readers,once they have launched themselves into it,will read it straight through'- Allan Massie,The Scotsman
'This tragicomic romp has a winning glint in its eye,delivering oodles of Downton-esque entertainment as it portrays a changing Britain poised uneasily on the brink of modernity.'- The Mail on Sunday
Louis de Bernières
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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