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Waiting for Sunrise
Bill Buford (Ed.)
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Description for Waiting for Sunrise
Paperback. A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408830390
SKU
V9781408830390
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Bill Buford (Ed.)
William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection, and most recently, the bestselling Ordinary Thunderstorms.
Reviews for Waiting for Sunrise
A truly gripping, hugely atmospheric and vastly complicated spy thriller
Daily Mirror
A book which immerses the reader in the coffee-house capital to create a highly accomplished romantic thriller
Christian House
Independent on Sunday
A pacy and involving page-turner that explores the myriad ways we lie to ourselves and others
Daily Mail
Superb; hand-on-heart, may-the-Lord-strike-me-down-terrific
Charles Cumming
Spectator
An intricately plotted world of spies, lies and the double cross
Sunday Telegraph
A gleeful celebration of storytelling - sly,clever, frequently hilarious,always involving ... the literary event of the year
The Times
Daily Mirror
A book which immerses the reader in the coffee-house capital to create a highly accomplished romantic thriller
Christian House
Independent on Sunday
A pacy and involving page-turner that explores the myriad ways we lie to ourselves and others
Daily Mail
Superb; hand-on-heart, may-the-Lord-strike-me-down-terrific
Charles Cumming
Spectator
An intricately plotted world of spies, lies and the double cross
Sunday Telegraph
A gleeful celebration of storytelling - sly,clever, frequently hilarious,always involving ... the literary event of the year
The Times