A world of other people
Carroll, Steven, 1949-2013
Book
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A WORLD OF OTHER PEOPLE traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society′s thin-lipped disapproval. The poet TS Eliot, with whom Iris shares firewatching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem ′Little Gidding′, one of the famous Four Quartets.
Main title:
A world of other people / Steven Carroll.
Author:
Carroll, Steven, 1949-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Sydney South, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2013.
Collation:
278 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780732291204 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
252342