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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free - The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019 (Paperback)
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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free - The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019 (Paperback)
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List price R321
Loot Price R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
You Save R57 (18%)
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* WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER
SCOTT PRIZE * The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa
Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as 'excellent', 'gripping',
'as suspenseful as any thriller', 'engrossing', 'moving' and
'magnificent'. One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious
man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John
Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's
forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his
peace of mind. He will not - cannot - talk about the war or face
the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna. After the
command comes to return to his regiment, he lights out instead for
the Hebrides, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being
dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish
officer with secret orders are on his trail. In luminous prose,
Miller portrays a man shattered by what he has witnessed, on a
journey that leads to unexpected friendships, even to love. But as
the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the
enemy is creeping closer. Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a
high price. Taut with suspense, this is an enthralling, deeply
involving novel by one of Britain's most acclaimed writers. 'His
writing suspends life until it is read and is a source of wonder
and delight' Hilary Mantel on Casanova in the Sunday Times
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