The final installment in Tim Pears's spellbinding chronicle of love, exile and belonging in a world on the brink of change. It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal
The powerful second novel in Tim Pears' acclaimed West Country trilogy. Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in England before World War I. 1912. Leo Sercombe is on a
Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Albert Sercombe is a f