by NigelBalchin (Author)
With ostentatious lack of concern, Bill Sarratt, his wife and her lover spend the war wining and dining expensively, occasionally sauntering out into the Blitz with cheerful remarks about the shattered night-life of London's West End. But beneath the false insouciance lies the real strain of a war that has firmly wrapped them all in its embrace. Wit may crackle at the same pace as buildings burn, but personal tragedy lurks appallingly close at hand.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 13 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 0304359696
ISBN 13: 9780304359691
Book Overview: This is the classic novel of life during the London Blitz 'A writer of genius' - John Betjeman 'Prose barer than Hemingway's' - Andrew Sinclair 'Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart' - Ruth Rendell