"After the Great War, a nurse and a damaged soldier become dangerously entangled in this “sensitive, unsettling tale” by the author of A Particular Man (The Independent).
Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills…
It’s 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own losses, is trying to settle back into her comfortable middle-class life as a doctor’s wife. But when she meets Vincent, a man so battered he must wear a mask to hide his scars, a perilous and magnetic attraction develops between them.
As their passion erupts and takes a darker turn, it threatens to spell disaster.
Will either of them ever recover from the lingering horrors of war? And can both of them walk away from their affair unscathed?"
"Love never dies in this novel by “a writer of addictive emotional thrillers.” —The Independent
Told from three perspectives, A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss.
When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner-of-war camp, it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling, the man who loved him. When he visits Edgar’s family after the war, Edgar's mother, Clementine, mistakes him for another man, and he fails to correct the mistake.
Playing the role of someone else and being in Edgar’s home with those who loved him stirs powerful and disorientating emotions in Starling.
Edgar’s loss has driven his sister, Aida, to seek solace in the arms of a series of men – but the meeting with Starling sparks a powerful and complex connection, fueled by their mutual longing for Edgar.
Meanwhile Clementine, also grieving for Edgar, has secrets of her own…"
"WW1 is over. As a nurse at the front, Clementine has found and lost love, but has settled for middle-class marriage. Vincent had half his face blown off, and wants more than life offers now. Drawn together by their shared experiences at the Front, they have a compulsive relationship, magnetic and parasitic, played out with blackmail and ending in disaster for one of them."
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