A fable-like tale of a small community afflicted by a mysterious plagueJuxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn’s The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic.At the novel’s heart ...
It is 1919, and as the First World War draws to an end, 15-year-old Emily Parish is poised to follow her mother into service. Her father, a gamekeeper on the Melham Estate, has become a victim of the war, like many others, lost in the fields of Franc...