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Nigel Farndale is the author of The Blasphemer, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Novel Award. His previous books include Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Biography Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was born and raised in the Yorkshire Dales and now lives on the Hampshire-Sussex border with his wife and their three sons.
Rich, unsparing and exquisitely textured...Farndale possesses the implacable emotional ferocity of a first-rate novelist...Achingly poignant. Sunday Telegraph Farndale is an exceptional storyteller... An elegant and atmospheric fiction about survival and redemption. -- Sebastian Shakespeare Tatler The beauty of this novel lies in Farndale's ability to wrap some testing moral questions around a fantastic story...A book that has at its core a passionate examination of the meaning of love. Psychologies Two stories set some 70 years apart unfold in tandem in this big, busy novel whose themes range from the mysteries of memory to forbidden desire of all shades...As for the riddle of how these two tales connect, that's what drives the novel and provides it with an unexpected twist. Daily Mail Farndale is an accomplished novelist and historian who can deftly portray both the nuances of feeling and the brutality of war. an eye for psychological darkness. intricate plotting. genuinely involving.' Mail on Sunday
