Author(s): Faulks, Sebastian,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 02/06/2022,
Pagination: 368 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Vintage,
Published By: Vintage Publishing,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Dimensions: 198 x 129mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781784704070

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Read this masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another.

'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers.

1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.

1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time...

'Fascinating... A rich, dark story' The TimesSebastian Faulks, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023