- Title:
-
The Evening Chorus (MP3)
- Written by:
-
Helen Humphreys
- Read by:
-
Morag Sims
- Format:
-
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
-
1
- Duration:
-
5 hours 28 minutes
- MP3 size:
-
225 MB
- Published:
-
August 28 2018
- Available Date:
-
August 28 2018
- Age Category:
-
Adult
- ISBN:
-
9781489452917
- Genres:
-
Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction; Sagas
- Publisher:
-
Bolinda/Audible audio
Qty
Format
Price
Bolinda price
A story of four lives torn apart by war, falling in and out of love, and the unlikely moments that come to define a life.
Downed during his first mission, James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide the time, he studies a nest of redstarts at the edge of camp. Some prisoners plot escape; some are shot. And then, one day, James is called to the kommandant's office.
Meanwhile, back home, James' new wife, Rose, is on her own, free in a way she has never known. Then, James' sister, Enid, loses everything during the Blitz and must seek shelter with Rose. In a cottage near Ashdown forest, the two women jealously guard secrets but form a surprising friendship. Each of these characters will find unexpected freedom amid war's privations and discover confinements that come with peace.
The Evening Chorus is a beautiful, astonishing examination of love, loss, escape, and the ways in which the intrusions of the natural world can save us.
'Poignantly explores the sorrows of war and consolations of nature ... A story of heartbreak and hope, it unfolds against a mesmerisingly described natural world.'
The Mail on Sunday
'A lyrical narrative about loss, love and the natural world.'
Country Life
'A poised, lyrical novel about the griefs of war, written with poetic intensity of observation.'
Helen Dunmore