Game of Patience
A Surrey village in the final months of the war with the occasional V1 thundering overhead . . . Against this backdrop a group of people, linked by events, play their game of patience: Hugh Thurloe, a former architect, is absent - either a prisoner of the Japanese or dead, at home his wife, mother and son wait for him or for news. A pacifist, exempt from active service on condition that he works on the land, waits for the chance to return to university; and the wife of one of his friends, also a pacifist, waits for her husband to come out of prison. A farmer and his sister wait for the death of their father, afflicted with a long and painful…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-5830-8
- EAN: 9781447258308
- Produktnummer: 15600915
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Francis King
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