From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author
of The Silence of the Girls The final novel in Pat Barker's
acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and
war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart
'Bold, hard-hitting, unforgettable, with luminous and unsparing
insight' Independent on Sunday 'Barker's command of detail and gift
for metaphor are as sharp as ever... Noonday is in the first rank'
Mail on Sunday '[There is] no end to her talent in describing how
conflicts rupture the soul' Arifa Akbar, Independent London, the
Blitz, autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city,
ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals
trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside
former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an
air-raid warden. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of
death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation. Old
loves and obsessions re-surface until Elinor is brought face to
face with an almost impossible choice. Writing about the Second
World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and
haunted city of London into electrifying life. The Life Class
trilogy: Life Class Toby's Room Noonday
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