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Pegasus
September 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
Featuring: Celia de Witt
528 pages ISBN: 1605988677 EAN: 9781605988672 Kindle: B00VXPW78O Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
For fans of Atonement, Birdsong, and
Downton Abbey, the first of three novels about a
privileged British family enduring the trials of World War
I, from New York Times bestselling author Kate
Williams. In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de
Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding of
their daughter Emmeline, while their eldest son, Arthur, is
studying in Paris, and Michael is just back from his first
term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt
children, is on the brink of adulthood and secretly dreams
of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and exploring
the world. But the onslaught of war changes everything and soon the de
Witts find themselves sidelined and in danger of losing
everything they hold dear. As Celia struggles to make sense
of the changing world around her, she lies about her age to
join the war effort and finds herself embroiled in a complex
plot that puts not only herself but those she loves in danger. With gripping detail and brilliant empathy, Kate Williams
tells the story of Celia and her family as they are shunned
by a society that previously embraced them, torn apart by
sorrow, and buffeted and changed by the storms of war.
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