{"product_id":"everyone-brave-is-forgiven-book-chris-cleave-9781501124372","title":"Everyone Brave Is Forgiven","description":"\u003cb\u003e***AN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER***\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe insightful, stark, and heartbreaking (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) novel about three lives entangled during World War II from the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Bee\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCleave's foray into historical fiction is both grand and intimate. The novel's ability to stay small and quiet against the raging tableau of war is what also makes it glorious....an absorbing account of survival, racism, classism, love, and pain, and the scars left by all of them...Cleave's prose is imbued with a Dickensian flair, deploying brilliant metaphors and crackling dialogue. --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion, Cleave paints a powerful portrait of war's effects on those who fight and those left behind. --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe London Blitz is cinematically re-imagined in a deeply moving new novel from Chris Cleave. As he did in \u003ci\u003eLittle Bee\u003c\/i\u003e, he places forthright characters in impossible situations in \u003ci\u003eEveryone Brave Is Forgiven\u003c\/i\u003e, a story set during World War II. --Carol Memmott, \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e (Minneapolis)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMagnificent and profoundly moving...This dazzling novel of World War II is full of unforgettable characters and the keen emotional insights that moved readers of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Cleave's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eLittle Bee\u003c\/i\u003e. --Shelf Awareness\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReal, engaging characters, based loosely on Cleave's own grandparents, come alive on the page. Insightful, stark, and heartbreaking, Cleave's latest novel portrays the irrepressible hopefulness that can arise in the face of catastrophe.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmong all the recent fictions about the war, Cleave's miniseries of a novel is a surprising standout, with irresistibly engaging characters. --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written, funny, gut-wrenching, and, above all, honest.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntensely felt...Full of insight and memorably original phrasings. --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWell crafted and compelling...nostalgic and bittersweet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLondon, 1939. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe day war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Shaw decides to ignore the war--until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath has unexpectedly enlisted. Then the conflict can no longer be avoided. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoung, bright, and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is--bewilderingly--made a teacher, she finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in London during the years of 1939-1942, when citizens had slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, \u003ci\u003eEveryone Brave is Forgiven \u003c\/i\u003efeatures little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave's grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49754817331473,"sku":"GOR009390321","price":5.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50217238659345,"sku":"CIN1501124374G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50385898864913,"sku":"CIN1501124374A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50917555962129,"sku":"CIN1501124374VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53710021918993,"sku":"GOR009448962","price":5.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501124374.jpg?v=1751433859","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/everyone-brave-is-forgiven-book-chris-cleave-9781501124372","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}