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23%OFFKirsten Mckenzie - The Chapel at the Edge of the World - 9781848541504 - V9781848541504
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The Chapel at the Edge of the World

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Description for The Chapel at the Edge of the World Paperback. A wartime love story richly told Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 278.

Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy.

Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation, Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren island. The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds and ends and homemade paints. Whilst Emilio's ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
John Murray Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848541504
SKU
V9781848541504
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10

About Kirsten Mckenzie
Kirsten McKenzie is 32 and lives in Pittenweem with her husband and two children. The Chapel at the Edge of the World is her first novel.

Reviews for The Chapel at the Edge of the World
'If you only read one book this summer, though, make it The Chapel at the Edge of the World'
Sunday Herald
'Unusual, fluently written... [an] unshowy absorbing read'
Guardian
'McKenzie's book grows impressively and movingly into its author's distinct vision'
Daily Mail
'So much fascinating detail that the reader's attention never wanders for a ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Chapel at the Edge of the World


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