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OverviewA Sunday Times historical fiction book of the year 'A moving study of an unlikely friendship and the healing power of the natural world'?Sunday Times 'A tender portrait of wartime youth'?Guardian_______ Frida is a twelve-year-old evacuee from the East End, sent to stay with a farming family deep in the lonely landscape of the Fens. Philip is an artist and a conscientious objector, living in a remote lighthouse on the shores of the Wash. Amid the wild beauty of the wetlands, as the world is consumed by war, they form a friendship that will change the course of both their lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sue HubbardPublisher: Pushkin Press Imprint: ONE ISBN: 9781911590750ISBN 10: 1911590758 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 06 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"'Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time... Full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality.' - Amanda Craig 'Compelling and beautifully intimate. A classic piece of storytelling' - Toby Litt 'A haunting and lyrical novel about loneliness and the compensations of the natural world, art and unlikely friendships' - Maggie Brookes 'Precise in its historical detail and admirable in its evocation of the large skies and isolation of its setting, this is a moving study of an unlikely friendship and the healing power of the natural world' - Sunday Times, Best Historical Fiction 'A tender portrait of wartime youth [with] an elegiac, gentle quality, evoking the Wash as ""a place between somewhere and nowhere, one of the last wildernesses in England"". A novel of tender quiet voices, and grace' - Guardian" Author InformationSue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. She has published three acclaimed novels and numerous collections of poetry, and was commissioned to create London's largest public art poem at Waterloo. Flatlands is inspired by Paul Gallico's classic wartime novella The Snow Goose. A Girl in White is also available from ONE. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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