Binding: Paperback
Description: Amid the chaos of World War II three people find unexpected freedom through their connection to the natural world from the author of Rabbit Foot Bill. Downed during his first mission James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide the time he studies a nest of redstarts at the edge of camp. Some prisoners plot escape; some are shot. And then one day James is called to the Kommandant's office. Meanwhile back home James's new wife Rose is on her own free in a way she has never known. Then James's sister Enid loses everything during the Blitz and must seek shelter with Rose. In a cottage near Ashdown forest the two women jealously guard secrets but form a surprising friendship. Each of these characters will find unexpected freedom amid war's privations and discover confinements that come with peace. The Evening Chorus is a beautiful astonishing examination of love loss escape and the ways in which the intrusions of the natural world can save us. The Evening Chorus serenades people brutally marked by war yet enduring to live and relish the tiny pleasures of another day. With her trademark prose exquisitely limpid Humphreys convinces us of the birdlike strength of the powerless. Emma Donoghue The Evening Chorus sparkles. Jo Baker A poised lyrical novel about the griefs of war written with poetic intensity of observation. Helen Dunmore
Title: The Evening Chorus A Novel
Author(s): Humphreys Helen
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780544348691
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/3/2015