by Sadie Jones - £8.99 Vintage (2015)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781784700799 | ISBN 10: 1784700797
The bestselling novel behind the major new BBC drama starring Jessica Brown Findlay, George Mackay, Greg Wise and Hattie Morahan
Sussex, 1957. Lewis is nineteen, straight out of jail, and stands alone at a railway station. Only one person is there to meet him: Kit Carmichael. Like him, she has endured a stifled childhood spent in a village still ravaged by the Second World War. And like him, she knows the violence bred by repression.
A decade earlier it was Lewis who waited for his father’s homecoming from war, little knowing that tragedy was also lying in wait, ready to tear his family apart.
Now, from the fractured remains of their old lives, Lewis and Kit must forge their own futures – even if that means first forcing the most painful secrets into the open...
(Price & availability last checked: July 2015)
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