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Title Statement | The evening chorus: a novel / Helen Humphreys. |
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Author | Humphreys, Helen, 1961- |
Publication | Toronto: HarperCollins, c2015. |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Extent of Item | 294 p. |
ISBN | 1443415480 9781443415484 |
Other Number | 2649631 |
Summary | RAF pilot James Hunter, shot down on his first mission, spends the Second World War in a German POW camp where his interest in the local birds leads him to develop a complicated relationship with the prison's kommandant. Meanwhile, back in England, his desperately lonely young wife, Rose, falls into a passionate affair with a soldier stationed nearby and forms an unexpected friendship with James' sister, Enid, who has lost everything during the Blitz in London. |
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By Topic | World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Prisoners and prisons |
Spouses--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
Adultery--Fiction | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction | |
By Name | Great BritainRoyal Air Force--Fiction--Airmen |
By Location | Great Britain--Fiction--History--George VI, 1936-1952 |
Germany--Fiction--History--1933-1945 | |
Kingston (Ont.)--Authors--Humphreys, Helen | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |