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The dust that falls from dreams / Louis de Bernières.
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9781846558771 (pbk.)
1846558778 (pbk.)
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De Bernières, Louis
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The dust that falls from dreams / Louis de Bernières.
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London Harvill Secker, 2015.
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515 pages ; 24 cm.
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In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era the McCosh sisters - Christabel, Ottilie, Rosie and Sophie - grow up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. On one side, their neighbors are the proper Pendennis family, recently arrived from Baltimore, whose close-in-age boys - Sidney, Albert and Ashbridge - shake their father's hand at breakfast and address him as "sir." On the other side is the Pitt family: a "resolutely French" mother, a former navy captain father, and two brothers, Archie and Daniel, who are clearly "going to grow up into a pair of daredevils and adventurers." In childhood this band is inseparable, but the days of careless camaraderie are brought to an abrupt halt by the outbreak of The Great War, in which everyone will play a part. All three Pendennis brothers fight in the hellish trenches at the front; Daniel Pitt becomes an ace fighter pilot with his daredevil tendencies intact; Rosie and Ottilie McCosh volunteer in the hospitals, where women serve with as much passion and nearly as much hardship as the men at the front; Christabel McCosh becomes one of the squad of photographers sending "snaps" of their loved ones at home to the soldiers; and Sophie McCosh drives for the RAF in France. In the aftermath of the war, as "the universal joy and relief were beginning to be tempered by . . . an atmosphere of uncertainty," everyone must contend with the modern world that is slowly emerging from the ashes of the old.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction
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Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Fiction
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