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We That Are Left

We That Are Left

by Clare Clark (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

    $6.07
Synopsis

It is 1910 and to ten-year-old Oskar Grunewald, the Melville family is impossibly, incomprehensibly glamorous. Born into privilege, buttressed by inherited wealth, their certainties are as unshakeable as the walls of their Victorian castle. It is a world to which Oskar, mathematics prodigy and son of a penniless German composer, has no wish to belong. His fascination is all for physics where new scientific discoveries are, for the first time in four hundred years, challenging Newton's fundamental theories of the universe. But when Theo Melville is killed in the Great War, shattering his family's lives, Oskar finds himself drawn reluctantly into the gaping hole his death has left behind. As Theo's two sisters struggle to forge their paths in a world that no longer plays by the old rules, Oskar's life becomes entwined with theirs in ways that will change all of their futures forever.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 02 Apr 2015
ISBN 10: 1846556066
ISBN 13: 9781846556067
Book Overview: A heartbreakingly beautiful novel about love and loss, We That Are Left explores the devastating effect of the First World War and the choices a family must make when all the conditions and convictions upon which they have constructed their lives have been shattered.

Media Reviews
A lavishly detailed historical novel that doesn't just recreate the past but alters your perception of it New York Times With splendid breadth and depth, We That Are Left accommodates an era's worth of historical reverberations within the confines of its highly polished rooms Washington Post Clare Clark is one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture -- Hilary Mantel Elegiac and elegantly written -- Patricia Nicol Sunday Times A wonderful, engrossing book -- Violet Henderson Vogue
Author Bio
Clare Clark's critically acclaimed novels include The Great Stink and Savage Lands, both longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and writes for numerous other publications, both in the UK and the USA. She lives and works in London.