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Read this masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another. 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day 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 cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. 1933: Anton is sent to write about 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... 'Fascinating... A rich, dark story' The Times Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023
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Snow Country, Sebastian Faulks
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- Snow Country
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sebastian Faulks
- Publisher
- Random House UK Ltd
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 1784704075
- ISBN13
- 9781784704070
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Wars
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- Read this masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another. 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day 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 cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. 1933: Anton is sent to write about 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... 'Fascinating... A rich, dark story' The Times Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023