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Daniel Pitt TrilogySeries

This trilogy unfolds during the tumultuous years straddling the turn of the 20th century, charting the lives of young individuals navigating personal dramas amidst the looming shadow of global conflict. It follows the destinies of families whose experiences are marked by love, loss, and the pursuit of happiness during profoundly challenging times. The narratives explore the fragility of human connections and the resilience required to forge new futures even after immense devastation. This is a poignant tale of coming-of-age and enduring spirit in the face of sweeping historical change.

The dust that falls from dreams
So much life left over
The Autumn of the Ace

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  1. 1

    The dust that falls from dreams

    • 511 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
    3.6(4083)Add rating

    A return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN such an extraordinary hit (2.5 million copies sold). In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood. When the boys end up scattered along the Western Front, Rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?

    The dust that falls from dreams
  2. 2

    So much life left over

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.8(1725)Add rating

    Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to escape the ties of home and the yearning for fulfilment that threatens their marriage. Back in England, Rosie's three sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. These are precarious times, and they find themselves using unconventional means to achieve their desires. Around them the world is changing, and when Daniel finds himself in Germany he witnesses events taking a dark and forbidding turn.

    So much life left over
  3. 3

    The Autumn of the Ace

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    4.2(549)Add rating

    Louis de Bernieres is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and cry, in the perfect nostalgic read to escape with this autumn. Is it ever too late to change your story? Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second.

    The Autumn of the Ace