Book description
From one of our most celebrated and imaginative writers comes a spellbinding novel about deception, betrayal, psychoanalysis, and the mysteries of the human heart. William Boyd follows his critically acclaimed novels A Good Man in Africa, Brazzaville Beach, and Ordinary Thunderstorms with a razor-sharp, incandescent thriller in Waiting for Sunrise.…
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Another deeply researched and atmospheric Boyd novel – he’s amazing the way he transports you to the time and place. His usual cast of deeply flawed characters carry you along with their story. Set just before and during WW1, Lysander is a young man of his time, drifting through a genteel life, until he meets Hettie in Vienna. While Hettie cures him of the problem – the reason for which he went to Vienna initially, to seek psychoanalysis – the relationship leads him into the murky world of British espionage where he must use his considerable ingenuity to work out…
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