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In Pale Battalions by Robert Goddard

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Also by Robert Goddard:

The Corners of the Globe, June 2016
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Long Time Coming, March 2010
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Name to a Face, July 2009
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Beyond Recall, March 2009
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Past Caring, May 2008
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Never Go Back, September 2007
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In Pale Battalions, June 2007
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Sight Unseen, January 2007
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Play to the End, April 2006
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Hand in Glove, April 2006
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Borrowed Time, February 2006
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Into the Blue, February 2006
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IN PALE BATTALIONS
By: Robert Goddard

Delta
June 2007
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Featuring: Leonora Galloway; Penelope
368 pages
ISBN: 0385339208
EAN: 9780385339209
Trade Size (reprint)
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Thriller Psychological

Six months after her husband's sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for a holiday in Paris with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin...

Their journey starts with an unscheduled stop at the imposing Thiepval Memorial to the dead of the Battle of the Somme near Amiens. Amongst those commemorated is Leonora's father. The date of his death is recorded and 30th April, 1916. But Leonora wasn't born until 14th March 1917.

Penelope at once supposes a simple wartime illegitimacy as the clue to her mother's unhappy childhood and the family's sundered connections with her aristocratic heritage, about which she has always known so little.

But nothing could have prepared her, or the reader, for the extraordinary story that is about to unfold.