Snow Country

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' ANTONY BEEVOR 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been harsh and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at a remote snow-capped sanatorium. 1933: Anton is sent to write about the same clinic, the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time. 'A magnificent, moving novel' INDEPENDENT 'Faulks on his best form' TELEGRAPH