An exquisite and harrowing new novel about ordinary lives swept up in the chaos of history, as the shadow of WWII touches Halifax.
Defoe Russet, orphaned at age nine by a Zeppelin crash, has grown up in the care of his magnetic uncle Edward. Now twenty-five, he works as a guard at the Glace Museum in Halifax. But, caught up in a tormenting love affair with Imogen Linny, the caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery, he finds himself unexpectedly catapulted into the horrors of war.
- ISBN10 0374706409
- ISBN13 9780374706401
- Publish Date 1 April 2007 (first published 31 July 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English