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Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Clara grew up in a house made ‘for Christmases and summers’. Her future husband Hal is from
distinguished military stock. In the heat and brutality of the Cyprus Emergency, the young couple’s pure love for one another – his admiration of her; her vow to be brave for him – is painfully tested. In her second novel (The Outcast was an acclaimed debut), Sadie Jones pulls no punches in her description of the savagely unsophisticated island war. An exceptional book that shudders with the
weight of human responsibility.
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Small Wars Synopsis
Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat of the emergency; the British are defending the colony against Cypriots - schoolboys and armed guerillas alike - battling for union with Greece.
Clara shares Hal's sense of duty and honour; she knows she must settle down, make the best of things, smile. But action changes Hal, and the atrocities he is drawn into take him not only further from Clara but himself, too; a betrayal that is only the first step down a dark path.
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780099540526 |
| Publication date: |
15th April 2010 |
| Author: |
Sadie Jones |
| Publisher: |
Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
472 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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About Sadie Jones
Sadie Jones is a novelist and screenwriter who was born and brought up in London. Her first novel, The Outcast ('Riveting', Lionel Shriver; 'Devastatingly good', Daily Mail) was the winner of the Costa First Novel Award. It was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize and was a Richard and Judy Summer Reads Number One bestseller. Sadie adapted The Outcast for BBC Television in 2014. Her second novel, Small Wars, ('Outstanding', The Times; 'One of the best books about the English at war ever', Joel Morris), was published in 2009, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her third, in 2010, was The Uninvited Guests. 2009 ('...a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class... a brilliant novel.' Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder. ‘Delightful, eerie novel ... puts one in mind of Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black ...’ The Daily Telegraph.) Her most recent novel, published May 2014, is Fallout, ('Intoxicating and immersive.' The Sunday Times; 'Intense.. unflinching', The New York Times), is now out in paperback. Sadie is married to the architect, Tim Boyd, and they live in West London with their two children.
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