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Resistance

Owen Sheers

A thrilling and emotionally intense novel set in a World War Two where Britain has been invaded.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571326129
Date Published
06.10.2016

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Summary

Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a beautifully imagined and powerfully moving story of love and loss.

Critic Reviews

Brilliant first novel... a gripping story of unexpected love and friendship in which Sheers captures the feeling of people under pressure and also excels in his descriptions of the valley's landscape. Let us hope that this is just the first of many memorable novels.

Chester Standard

Critic Reviews

A stunning debut

Good Book Guide

Critic Reviews

Sheers is a poet by nature ad so no detail... escapes close examination.

Telegraph

OwenSheers

Owen Sheers is a poet, novelist and playwright. Twice winner of the Wales Book of the Year, his books of poetry include Skirrid Hill, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and the verse drama Pink Mist, winner of the Hay Festival Poetry Medal. In 2018 he was awarded the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Owen’s theatrical work includes The Two Worlds…

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