The Year After
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4.0 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
DECEMBER 1919. Tom Allen, uncomfortable in London after five years in uniform, receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Hannesford Court.
It's almost as if nothing has changed. Cards in the library after dinner. The Boxing Day shoot. The New Year ball. Margot.
But Tom hasn't forgotten the professor. A strange meeting in Germany has raised a question in his mind: in all his visits to Hannesford before the War, all those years observing the glittering life of its owners, how much did he ever really see?
Customer Reviews
The Year After
Having thoroughly enjoyed the author’s ingenious and heart-warming tales of Mrs Hudson proving as canny as Sherlock Holmes, I turned to this very different book with great interest.
It did not disappoint. There can be few better accounts of 1919 in English society. War was over, but rich and poor had lost their finest sons and those lucky enough to return did not feel as lucky as we might expect.
Davies fills every page with understanding and compassion, for shallow fools, and heroes alike, and all shades inbetween.
This is a page-turning story of damage and gradual recovery, of love and loyalty, of passion and the pain that comes with it. At the heart of it all....a terrible mystery to be solved.
In Tom Allen, Davies has created a character to like and admire, as he navigates his way through the grief, brittle gaiety and secrets of the upper class Stansbury family in that doldrum year before the 1920s broke free.
His fellow narrator, Anne Gregory, also leaps off the page. The reader can picture, and believe in, every character. A superb and engrossing read.