Good Condition - with a scuffed dust jacket, rubbed folds and edges, and small nicks at the spine ends and corners. Pages are clean.
German composer Edward Pepper reaches England as the Second World War approaches, only to find his new beginning interrupted by tuberculosis. During his recovery he meets Sally, a young doctor whose determination has carried her through family opposition to a medical career. They fall in love and settle in East Anglia, where their shared life becomes the starting point for a wider family story. Years later, Edward watches his grandchildren encounter the pleasures, uncertainties and losses that marked earlier generations. Patrick Gale follows the recurring patterns of love and hurt across this intimate family history, bringing music, desire and mortality into a novel about the experiences that connect lives over time.
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