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At a London party to celebrate the end of World War One, a shell-shocked young pilot boasts of growing up in a little known Himalayan kingdom. Is he telling the truth? Or is he just saying it to impress a diplomat’s daughter?
But Eddie Sackville is different to the other men around him. Too young to have the war hero accolades that are attached to his name, he was struck deaf by the noise of the remorseless bombardment of the trenches and found his hearing again high above the war in a bi-plane, seconds before he crashed.
Months later, the girl’s father dispatches him to the Himalayan kingdom he claims to know so well with orders to report back regularly.
He is never seen again.
Twenty years later, the world is at war again and a young woman and her mother are caught in a Japanese raid as they cross India in search of the mother’s former lover, a mysterious young man who vanished two decades earlier...
A story of heroism, the horrors of war and the power of a love affair spanning three decades to heal them all.
Praise for Jonathan Grimwood's The Last Banquet:
'A colourful life, brilliantly imagined… Romance and adventure drip off every page… Not an ounce of fat.' The Times
'A true feast for the senses... Such is the richness of the story telling that the reader is persuaded that it could be fact.’ The Scotsman
'Darkly engaging, quasi-picaresque… Sensuous and lean, both colorful and matter-of-fact.’
Wall Street Journal
'Intelligent story of lost innocence… Convincingly in the traditions of Patrick Süskind's Perfume & Andrew Millar's Pure.' TLS
‘Vividly evoked.’
The New Yorker
'Grimwood’s brilliantly evocative new book reads like a cross between Patrick Süskind and Angela Carter.' Irish Times
‘Literary tour-de-force…’ The Independent
Shortlisted Le Prix Montesquieu 2015
NPR 100 Best Books of the Year.
Genre: Thriller
At a London party to celebrate the end of World War One, a shell-shocked young pilot boasts of growing up in a little known Himalayan kingdom. Is he telling the truth? Or is he just saying it to impress a diplomat’s daughter?
But Eddie Sackville is different to the other men around him. Too young to have the war hero accolades that are attached to his name, he was struck deaf by the noise of the remorseless bombardment of the trenches and found his hearing again high above the war in a bi-plane, seconds before he crashed.
Months later, the girl’s father dispatches him to the Himalayan kingdom he claims to know so well with orders to report back regularly.
He is never seen again.
Twenty years later, the world is at war again and a young woman and her mother are caught in a Japanese raid as they cross India in search of the mother’s former lover, a mysterious young man who vanished two decades earlier...
A story of heroism, the horrors of war and the power of a love affair spanning three decades to heal them all.
Praise for Jonathan Grimwood's The Last Banquet:
'A colourful life, brilliantly imagined… Romance and adventure drip off every page… Not an ounce of fat.' The Times
'A true feast for the senses... Such is the richness of the story telling that the reader is persuaded that it could be fact.’ The Scotsman
'Darkly engaging, quasi-picaresque… Sensuous and lean, both colorful and matter-of-fact.’
Wall Street Journal
'Intelligent story of lost innocence… Convincingly in the traditions of Patrick Süskind's Perfume & Andrew Millar's Pure.' TLS
‘Vividly evoked.’
The New Yorker
'Grimwood’s brilliantly evocative new book reads like a cross between Patrick Süskind and Angela Carter.' Irish Times
‘Literary tour-de-force…’ The Independent
Shortlisted Le Prix Montesquieu 2015
NPR 100 Best Books of the Year.
Genre: Thriller
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