The Heart Beneath Quartet
(2017)(A book in the Heart Beneath Quartet series)
An omnibus of novels by Carey Harrison
All four books in Carey Harrison's The Heart Beneath Quartet series are collected together here for the first time in one epic collection.
RICHARD'S FEET
In the bitter spring of 1948, an Englishman walks across Soviet Germany, against a tide of refugees, searching for the woman he fell in love with before the war...
He will become a lord of the underworld in a country rising from the ashes, where confidence is fast becoming a national trick, and where no one is who they claim to be. For Richard Thurgo, a man eager to reinvent himself, it is heaven on earth.
As Germany prospers in the fifties and sixties so does Richard, now an influential figure in the underworld, but two threats continue to hang over him - his own discarded identity and that of Germany's...
CLEY
The year is 1968, and Jack Thurgo is about to plunge into marriage. Before he finally commits himself, he takes a last holiday on his own, cycling to the Norfolk coast.
Then Jack comes across a fatal car crash in a country lane and recognises his former boarding school mentor, John Bromley, as the comatose survivor.
But at the hospital, a woman identifies him as Mr. Sindacombe. Unable to let this go, Jack starts to investigate the matter with a feverish determination bordering on the obsessive.
EGON
East Germany, 1948. Egon, a boy of eight, is found living alone in the forest and is dubbed 'wolf boy'.
He appears to be the son of Peter von Lutzow-Bruel, arrested five years previously, along with his wife, in the wake of the 1944 assassination plot that narrowly failed to kill Adolf Hitler.
Rescued from the woods by Richard Thurgo, an English relative leading a shady existence in post-war Hamburg, the boy is sent to England to be brought up by Richard's brother, Alec.
Yet the finer details of his past remain shrouded in mystery and confusion.
HOW TO PUSH THROUGH
Anna Maria von Doderer is waiting. Waiting for a therapy patient she hasn't seen for many years. She has to tell her about her diagnosis all that time ago. That she'd got it all wrong. Chrissie knows she must meet the "Dod" and is apprehensive. Will Anna-Maria be able to see straight through her?
But the news she now brings can only be told face to face. The news about Egon.
Egon, who, in total innocence, has drawn so many lives together in a complex tapestry, with both miraculous and disastrous outcomes.
"A work of near-demonic beauty, antic imagination and universal resonance - in short, the calling card of a major talent." - The San Francisco Chronicle
'Holds the reader spellbound through his insinuating voice, his exultant love of language and sheer storytelling power. In its surprise twists and turns, this astonishing, affecting, rich novel mirrors the dislocation of our century' - Publishers Weekly
'Harrison is a polished and entertaining writer' - Time Out UK
'Magnificent.' - The London Times
Carey Harrison was born in Britain and raised in the United States where he has spent the majority of his working life. He began as a stage playwright, completing 42 plays for the stage and forty plays for BBC radio. He is also an actor, teach and novelist and was described in the Dublin Evening News as 'one of the most accomplished writers of our time'. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
Genre: Thriller
RICHARD'S FEET
In the bitter spring of 1948, an Englishman walks across Soviet Germany, against a tide of refugees, searching for the woman he fell in love with before the war...
He will become a lord of the underworld in a country rising from the ashes, where confidence is fast becoming a national trick, and where no one is who they claim to be. For Richard Thurgo, a man eager to reinvent himself, it is heaven on earth.
As Germany prospers in the fifties and sixties so does Richard, now an influential figure in the underworld, but two threats continue to hang over him - his own discarded identity and that of Germany's...
CLEY
The year is 1968, and Jack Thurgo is about to plunge into marriage. Before he finally commits himself, he takes a last holiday on his own, cycling to the Norfolk coast.
Then Jack comes across a fatal car crash in a country lane and recognises his former boarding school mentor, John Bromley, as the comatose survivor.
But at the hospital, a woman identifies him as Mr. Sindacombe. Unable to let this go, Jack starts to investigate the matter with a feverish determination bordering on the obsessive.
EGON
East Germany, 1948. Egon, a boy of eight, is found living alone in the forest and is dubbed 'wolf boy'.
He appears to be the son of Peter von Lutzow-Bruel, arrested five years previously, along with his wife, in the wake of the 1944 assassination plot that narrowly failed to kill Adolf Hitler.
Rescued from the woods by Richard Thurgo, an English relative leading a shady existence in post-war Hamburg, the boy is sent to England to be brought up by Richard's brother, Alec.
Yet the finer details of his past remain shrouded in mystery and confusion.
HOW TO PUSH THROUGH
Anna Maria von Doderer is waiting. Waiting for a therapy patient she hasn't seen for many years. She has to tell her about her diagnosis all that time ago. That she'd got it all wrong. Chrissie knows she must meet the "Dod" and is apprehensive. Will Anna-Maria be able to see straight through her?
But the news she now brings can only be told face to face. The news about Egon.
Egon, who, in total innocence, has drawn so many lives together in a complex tapestry, with both miraculous and disastrous outcomes.
Praise for The Heart Beneath Quartet
"A work of near-demonic beauty, antic imagination and universal resonance - in short, the calling card of a major talent." - The San Francisco Chronicle
'Holds the reader spellbound through his insinuating voice, his exultant love of language and sheer storytelling power. In its surprise twists and turns, this astonishing, affecting, rich novel mirrors the dislocation of our century' - Publishers Weekly
'Harrison is a polished and entertaining writer' - Time Out UK
'Magnificent.' - The London Times
Carey Harrison was born in Britain and raised in the United States where he has spent the majority of his working life. He began as a stage playwright, completing 42 plays for the stage and forty plays for BBC radio. He is also an actor, teach and novelist and was described in the Dublin Evening News as 'one of the most accomplished writers of our time'. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
Genre: Thriller
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