Four linked episodes, beginning at the start of the English Civil War, bring a different century alive, until John Smith flies over the village of Furnace Green on his way to war in 1940 and fuses past, present and future in the crucible of war. This novel completes the story of England's past begun in Patricia Wright's "I am England", winner of the 1987 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize.
- ISBN10 0370311949
- ISBN13 9780370311944
- Publish Date 28 April 1988 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Bodley Head Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English