This is Helen Dunmore’s first novel and although some of her later novels have been more widely read and more obvious commercial bestsellers, this one is an outstanding piece of writing that will truly stand the test of time. During World War I, D.H. Lawrence and his wife moved to Cornwall where they became the subject of intense suspicion from the locals and this forms the inspiration for the novel centering on Clare, a young girl who comes under the influence of the Lawrences. Dunmore is superb at evoking characters from the past and yet making you feel relaxed in their company and the situations these characters are found in are captured perfectly as well.
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It is May 1917 and war overshadows the haunting beauty of spring in Zennor. As U-boats attack ship after ship on the Cornish coastline, the village is alive with talk of treachery. In a world of call-up, telegrams, suspicions and silent fears, no one is immune.
Not Clare Coyne, a young artist, nor Clare’s beloved cousin John William, on leave from the trenches and shell-shocked. And especially not D. H. Lawrence and his German wife Frieda who, hoping to escape the war-fever of London, find themselves the objects of the shifting, dangerous tide of scorn and gossip. Helen Dunmore’s compelling first novel is a passionate story of love, betrayal and self-discovery in wartime.
Zennor in Darkness features in the following genres: General Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Zennor in Darkness is available in Paperback
Zennor in Darkness was written by Helen Dunmore and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Zennor in Darkness has 314 pages
£8.99
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