"A deliciously evoked return to worlds, and a Europe, now almost vanished; it will ravish connoisseurs of the lost."-John Fowles. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser's Germany into the wider Europe of the 1920s and the limbo between world wars...
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