Description:
Title:
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781444784664
Overview:
Step into the storm-torn world of the Napoleonic era with Andrew Millers Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019. On a rain-swept night in 1809, Captain John Lacroix is carried into a house in Somerset, body damaged but alive, mind haunted by the retreat to Corunna and the brutal memory of what the war demanded. He refuses to speak of the carnage, the moral cost, or the lives cut short. When orders come to return to his regiment, he abandons the march and flees toward the Hebrides, hoping to outrun the past. Yet the past trails him: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer with secret orders close in, turning a fragile escape into a perilous chase. Millers lean, lucid prose renders wind an
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