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A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY
THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel. 'A superb
storyteller' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'd place him up there with Graham
Greene' Philippa Gregory 'Balchin writes about timeless things, the
places in the heart' Ruth Rendell 'Balchin has been absurdly
overlooked for too long' Julian Fellowes James Manning is perfectly
content. He has a successful life as a businessman in the city, a
bright young thing of a wife, Jill, and an idyllic home in the
countryside, where he is a local magistrate. The only fly in the
ointment is the 'Honbill' - the Honourable William Bule, a
gentleman with too much time on his hands. When a young man is
knocked off his bicycle and subsequently dies, James is sure that
Bule is the culprit - after all, he saw a scratch on the Honbill's
car the day of the accident and it matches the description to a T.
But events take an unexpected turn when James discovers that it was
really Jill driving that night, and he is torn between obligations
to his wife and to his profound sense of right and wrong. A WAY
THROUGH THE WOOD was the inspiration for SEPARATE LIES, a 2005
British film adapted by Academy Award-winning writer Julian
Fellowes and starring Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson and Rupert
Everett.
The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR
captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life
during the bombardment. Bill Sarratt is a civil servant working on
the war effort. Thwarted at every turn by bureaucracy and the
vested interests of big business, the seemingly unflappable Bill is
also on the verge of losing his wife Marcia to a literary poseur
named Stephen. As the bombs continue to fall, Bill must decide
whether he his willing to compromise his principles and prevent his
life from crumbling before his very eyes.
A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of
the Second World War. Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the
'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability
has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink
problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still,
he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves. The stakes
are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped
bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to
diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his
old inadequacies return to haunt him. Can he, at last, prove his
worth and put his demons to rest?
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