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Read this masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another.
'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day
1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers.
1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.
1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time...
'Fascinating... A rich, dark story' The Times
Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023
Genre: Historical
'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day
1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers.
1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.
1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time...
'Fascinating... A rich, dark story' The Times
Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023
Genre: Historical
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