Book description
Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.
'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .'
Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick…
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My choices this year are all connected with war. Susan Hill is also the author of The Woman in Black, a scary ghost story which I couldn’t put down, and which was – perhaps still is – a terrifying theatrical experience (apparently – I haven’t dared see it).
She wrote Strange Meeting as a very young woman. It is a graphic account of being a young English officer on the front line during the First World War. No detail is spared. We are down the trenches, then, after an anguished wait, "over the top," to where the enemy waits…
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