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Author

Susan Hill

Susan Hill is a prize-winning novelist, having been awarded the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards, as well as having been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She wrote Mrs de Winter, the bestselling sequel to Rebecca, and the ghost story The Woman in Black, which was adapted for the stage and became a great success in the West End. Her books include a collection of exquisite short stories, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read, and the highly successful crime novel series about the detective Simon Serrailler. Susan Hill lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing firm, Long Barn Books.

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Title:

Strange Meeting

Written by:

Susan Hill 

Read by:

Joe Jameson 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

6 

Duration:

6 hours 47 minutes 

Published:

November 01 2015 

Available Date:

November 01 2015 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781486299003 

Genres:

Fiction; War Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 34.95

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‘A remarkable feat of imaginative and descriptive writing.’
The Times

Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.

‘He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep...’ Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle. As the pair approach the front line, to the proximity of death and destruction, their strange friendship deepens. But each knows that soon they will be separated...

‘The feeling of men under appalling stress at a particular moment in history is communicated with almost uncanny power.’
The Sunday Times

‘Truly Astonishing.’
The Daily Telegraph