Blasted Things: A fresh and compelling novel about life, love and the damage of war
Sep 2024 · Open Road Media
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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?
“One of the most compelling novels I have read all year.” —Liz Jensen, author of The Uninvited
Praise for Lesley Glaister
“[Glaister] commands respect for writing novels which are not just dark and mysterious but also emotionally satisfying.” —The Times Literary Supplement
“One of Britain’s finest novelists.” —The Sunday Telegraph
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?
“One of the most compelling novels I have read all year.” —Liz Jensen, author of The Uninvited
Praise for Lesley Glaister
“[Glaister] commands respect for writing novels which are not just dark and mysterious but also emotionally satisfying.” —The Times Literary Supplement
“One of Britain’s finest novelists.” —The Sunday Telegraph
About the author
Lesley Glaister (b. 1956) is a British novelist, playwright, and teacher of writing, currently working at the University of St Andrews. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Society of Authors. Her first novel, Honour Thy Father, was published in 1990 and received both a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. Glaister became known for her darkly humorous works and has been dubbed the Queen of Domestic Gothic. Glaister was named Yorkshire Author of the Year in 1998 for her novel Easy Peasy, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award in 1998. Now You See Me was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2002. Glaister lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, author Andrew Greig.
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