ABOUT
THE BOOK

Autumn 1919, in a Swiss spa town, Elisabeth Mortlake, companion to her widowed sister-in-law, meets Jameson and Hunter, ex-officers striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the First World War. Elisabeth is drawn increasingly into their lives, gradually understanding how fragile is the peace they each inhabit and how the bonds and ideals which once sustained them now threaten to destroy them completely. Robert Edric was born in 1956 and lives in East Yorkshire, England. He has written several previous and prize-winning novels.