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Lucifer Before Sunrise: Henry Williamson

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Synopsis:

Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.

Beginning in the winter of 1940-1 and ending with the uneasy 'sunrise' of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving idealistically to hold a balance while lamenting the division and possible total ruin of Europe, as he copes with the day-to-day problems of running the East Anglian farm he has wrested from virtual wilderness. The pattern of everyday living in those years is lovingly evoked: the bomber-haunted nights, the petty profiteering and gossip of country life - all essential, but often unrecorded, elements of the wartime scene.

'The sequence will stand, at the end, as a massive emotional record.' Guardian

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Fiction

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General Fiction

Genres & Themes:

Community; Faber Finds; Family Saga; Farming; Post-War