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The Blind Light (Hardcover)
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The Blind Light (Hardcover)
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Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021 'The Blind Light reads
like a British Don DeLillo, telling the social history of Britain
through two generations of a family.' - Alex Preston, Observer 'A
powerful and affecting novel' - Jim Crace, author of Harvest In the
late 1950s, during his National Service, Drummond meets the two
people who will change his life: Carter, a rich, educated young man
sent down from Oxford; and Gwen, a barmaid with whom he feels an
instant connection. His feelings for both will be tested at a
military base known as Doom Town - a training ground where
servicemen prepare for the aftermath of an Atomic Strike. It is an
experience that will colour the rest of his - and his family's -
life. Told from the perspectives of Drum and Gwen, and later their
children Nathan and Anneka, The Blind Light moves from the Fifties
through to the present day, taking in the global and local events
that will shape and define them all. From the Cuban Missile Crisis
to the War on Terror, from the Dagenham strikes to Foot and Mouth,
from Skiffle to Rave, we see a family come together, driven apart,
fracture and reform - as the pressure of the past is brought,
sometimes violently, to bear on the present. The Blind Light is a
powerful, ambitious, big yet intimate story of our national past
and a brilliant evocation of a family and a country. It will remind
you how complicated human history is - and how hard it is to do the
right thing for the right reasons.
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