'De Bernieres is a singular,cherishable voice'Mail on SundayFrom the master of historical fiction,this book follows war hero Daniel Pitt and his unforgettable family after the Second World War.Some bonds are hard to break...Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home.Daniel's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with his son,Bertie,has been a failure since Bertie was a small boy.But after his brother Archie's death,Daniel is keen for new perspectives. He first travels to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place he loved best,and then finds himself in Canada,avoiding his family and friends back in England. Daniel and Bertie's different experiences of war,although devastating,also bring with them the opportunity for the two to reconnect.If only they can find a way to move on from the past...For more adventures with flying ace Daniel Pitt,see The Dust That Falls From Dreams and So Much Life Left Over.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781529110753Number of pages: 336Weight: 238 gDimensions: 197 x 129 x 21 mm
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De Bernieres is a singular,cherishable voice.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(The Autumn of the Ace is) penned with de Bernières's quiet,deprecating humour and sharp observationBoth heart-warming and heart-wrenching,this novel will captivate the senses and make you laugh as well as cry. Brimming with incredible,quirky characters and beautiful,lyrical writing,The Autumn of the Ace is the ideal book for lovers of historical fiction
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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