The evening chorus
Humphreys, Helen, 1961-2016
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Shot down on his first RAF mission, James Hunter spends his war in a German prison camp. The other captives busy themselves planning their escapes, but James dedicates himself to a detailed study of the redstarts nesting just beyond the camp boundaries. Rose, his young wife, is spending her war in a cottage on the lip of Ashdown Forest in Sussex. She'd hardly known James before he went away and can barely engage with his letters, which talk of nothing but birds. Now she has fallen in love with Toby, a young pilot home on sick leave, whom she meets secretly at night. Then James's sister is bombed out of her flat and comes to live in Rose's tiny cottage. Little more than strangers, both women are guarded, and Rose tries to conceal her affair. But later both look back on this strange interlude as one of their happiest.
Main title:
The evening chorus / Helen Humphreys.
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Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2016.
Collation:
294 pages ; 20 cm
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Originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9781781253038 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
English
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BRN:
2268933
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