Fallen /
Lia Mills.
- Dublin : Penguin Books, 2014.
- 179 p. ; 24 cm.
Signed by the author.
Fallen by Lia Mills - a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War and the Easter. Rising Spring, 1915. Katie Crilly gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin brother, Liam, has been killed on the Western Front. A year later, when her home city of Dublin is suddenly engulfed in violence, Katie finds herself torn by conflicting emotions. Taking refuge in the home of a friend, she meets Hubie Wilson, a friend of Liam's from the Front. There unfolds a remarkable encounter between two young people, both wounded and both trying to imagine a new life. Lia Mills has written a novel that can stand alongside the works of Sebastian Faulks, Pat Barker and Louisa Young. "Lia Mills writes superbly about the human heart.
9781844883059 : (pbk.) 9780241964729 : (pbk.)
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction. English fiction--Irish authors--21st century.