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Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties, reissued to accompany Philippa Gregory's new bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn GirlLily Valance wants to forget the war. She''s determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she''s drawn to his wealth and status. In Lily he sees his salvation from the past, from the nightmare, from the guilt at surviving the Flanders plains where so many were lost.But it''s a dream that cannot last. Lily has no intention of leaving her singing career. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen''s nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning

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Fallen Skies

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins
      Published 16 October 2006
      ISBN-13 9780007233069
      978-0007233069
      ISBN-10 000723306X
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Philippa Gregory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties, reissued to accompany Philippa Gregory's new bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn GirlLily Valance wants to forget the war. She''s determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she''s drawn to his wealth and status. In Lily he sees his salvation from the past, from the nightmare, from the guilt at surviving the Flanders plains where so many were lost.But it''s a dream that cannot last. Lily has no intention of leaving her singing career. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen''s nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning

      Trade Review

      Praise for ‘Fallen Skies’:

      ‘Superbly crafted…a fine book.’ Daily Mail

      ‘Round of applause.’ Frank Delaney, Sunday Times

      Praise for Philppa Gregory:
      ‘Written from instinct, not out of calculation, and it shows.’
      Peter Ackroyd, The Times

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