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Title: THE GALE OF THE WORLD
By: Henry Williamson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 057127952X
ISBN 13: 9780571279524
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Publisher: FABER & FABER
Pub. date: 1 May, 2011
Pages: 364
Description: Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor he is as ever haunted by the past, and his pro-German views bring him under constant fear of attack.
Synopsis: This is the final volume, volume fifteen, of "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight". Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor he is as ever haunted by the past, and his pro-German views bring him under constant fear of attack. A love affair, the death of his father, and tender relationship with his cousin's two daughters are particularly outstanding in a novel full of incident; and this final novel in "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight" completes the history of Phillip Maddison while at the same time rounding off an unsurpassed picture of fifty swiftly-changing years.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Returns: Returnable
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