Name: My Dear I Wanted to Tell You von Louisa Young
SKU: 9780007429196
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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Zusammenfassung

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Louisa Young

Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight.

While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home.

Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead?

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Bewertungen

`This is the finest Great War novel since Susan Hill's `Strange Meeting'. Louisa Young weaves the experiences of her characters using an urgent, theatrical, staccato style that is probably best appreciated as an audio book, especially when read by the phenomenal Dan Stevens, who invests the characters with an immediately recognisable individuality whether they are thinking, writing, speaking - or, indeed, desperately trying to speak'
Independent on Sunday

`Every once in a while comes a novel that generates its own success, simply by being loved. Louisa Young's My Dear I Wanted to Tell You inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since David Nicholls' One Day'
The Times

`Birdsong for the new millennium'
Tatler

`Powerful, sometimes shocking, boldly conceived, it fixes on war's lingering trauma to show how people adapt - or not - and is irradiated by anger and pity'
The Sunday Times

`[A] tender, elegiac novel. Others have been here before, of course, from Sebastian Faulks to Pat Barker, but Young belongs in their company'
Mail on Sunday

`Unmissable ... in crisp poignant prose Young explores what war really means in terms of mental anguish, while cleverly commenting on class and sex'
Marie Claire

`Weaving heartbreakingly painful irony, heroic sacrifice, human weakness, vanity, tragedy and the purest of loves, you'll be left sobbing and grasping onto any hope that all is not lost amid the poppies, the guns and the hospital beds'
Easy Living

`A memorable and unusual novel which explores new ground in the literature of the Great War'
Linda Grant

`This novel is a triumph'
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Über Louisa Young

Louisa Young was born in London. She was for many years a freelance journalist, working mostly for the motorcycle press, for Marie Claire and for the Guardian. She has travelled widely and published ten books. She lives in London and Italy with her daughter. She is the adult half of Zizou Corder, authors of the best-selling Lionboy trilogy, which is published in 36 languages.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR006388498

ISBN 13

9780007429196

ISBN 10

0007429193

Titel

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Louisa Young

Autor

Louisa Young

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

HarperCollins Publishers

Datum

2011-03-17

Preise

Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: audible.co.uk Audiobook of the Year 2011 Short-listed for Costa Novel Award 2011

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