Daunt Books

Olivia Manning's sequel to The Balkan Trilogy, this novel follows communist lecturer Guy Pringle and his wife Harriet as they flee war torn Europe to the presumed safety of North Africa. Facing isolation and their own personal difficulties, it is not long before the conflict is once again on their doorstep. Said to be based on the time spent by Manning and her husband in Cairo, Anthony Burgess described this novel as "The finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer."

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