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The Return of Captain John Emmett

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Return of Captain John Emmett

By Elizabeth Speller

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About the book

1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence ...Show more

First World War fiction
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ISBN

9781844086092

Publisher

Virago

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Return of Captain John Emmett

Format

Paperback

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