A STORY OF SABOTAGE, BETRAYAL AND THE TERRIBLE SADNESS OF EXILE.
'Remarkable'The Times.
'A magnificent novel'The Times.
'Gripping'The Spectator.
Scotland, 1940: The Fronsac, a French warship, blows up in the Firth of Clyde. The disaster is witnessed by three locals. Jackie, a young girl who thinks she caused the explosiong by running away from school. Her mother Helen, a spirited woman married to a dreary young officer; and their lodger, a Polish soldier whose country has just been erased from the map by Hitler and Stalin.
All their lives will be changed by the death of the Fronsac.
- ISBN10 1786694379
- ISBN13 9781786694379
- Publish Date 10 August 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Apollo
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English