The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as \'excellent\', \'gripping\', \'as suspenseful as any thriller\', \'engrossing\', \'moving\' and \'magnificent\'. \'His writing suspends life until it is read and is a source of wonder and delight\' Hilary Mantel on Casanova in the Sunday Times..
Taut with suspense, this is an enthralling, deeply involving novel by one of Britain\'s most acclaimed writers.
Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a high price.
But as the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the enemy is creeping closer.
In luminous prose, Miller portrays a man shattered by what he has witnessed, on a journey that leads to unexpected friendships, even to love.
After the command comes to return to his regiment, he lights out instead for the Hebrides, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer with secret orders are on his trail.
He will not - cannot - talk about the war or face the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna.
Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind.
He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain\'s disastrous campaign against Napoleon\'s forces in Spain.
One rainswept winter\'s night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset.
The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as \'excellent\', \'gripping\', \'as suspenseful as any thriller\', \'engrossing\', \'moving\' and \'magnificent\'
