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Lori Inglis Hall was born and raised in Leicestershire, and now lives with her family in East Sussex. THE SHOCK OF THE LIGHT is her first novel. She holds an MA in History and currently works in the archives of World War II photographer Lee Miller.
'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal in the loves, secrets, betrayals, and losses it examines… a quietly devastating story about lost time and lost futures that will stay with me' FLORENCE KNAPP, bestselling author of The Names ‘An intriguing take on female spies that opens up the clandestine world to generations who feel the Second World War to be distant and perhaps even irrelevant to their lives. The writing is admirably spare, delicately descriptive and alluring in its twists and turns’ SONIA PURNELL, bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance and Kingmaker 'An astonishing page-turner that left me breathless. Inglis Hall masterfully weaves the lives of her characters into the fabric of identity, politics and conflict, desire and deceit, memory and time, in a story that pulses with tenderness and truth. It is a portrait of love in all its forms – between siblings, between comrades, men and women, men and men, between citizens and nations – love that endures beyond rupture and loss. Most of all, it's a powerful act of honouring, with factual gravitas, the real woman abandoned by their country, betrayed by the patriarchy, forgotten by history, and all-too-often romanticised on the page. A tour de force; hard to believe it is a debut. An essential addition to the wartime literature canon' HOLLY DAWSON, author All Of Us Atoms
