Synopsis
'Astonishing - jagged, fresh and startlingly alive' Daily Mail
Jeannie is nineteen when the world changes, Kip only fourteen. The sudden accident that robs them of their mother leaves them adrift, with only their father to guide them. Jeannie seeks escape in work and later marriage to a man whose social connections propel her into an unfamiliar world of wealth and...
Details
26 January 2017368 pages
9781509802128Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Hannah Kohler isn't the first author to explore the cost of war, but she does so with remarkable emotional intelligence in this compelling account . . . This is a gripping book about war.Sunday Times
Dark, beautifully written and insightful, this is an impressive debut.Sunday Express
Kohler is particularly good at capturing both her protagonists' individual voices as they change and grow over time and the impact of historical events on small-town lives. She also has a quite wonderful understanding of the way Vietnam radically overturned America's assured sense of itself, while her prose is astonishing - jagged, fresh and startlingly alive.Daily Mail
Kohler’s debut – confident and flawlessly researched – comes to represent the detrimental effect of the war on an entire generation.Guardian
