A World of Other People

by Steven Carroll

Paperback, 2013

Description

Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society's thin-lipped disapproval. The poet T.S. Eliot, with whom Iris shares firewatching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem 'Little Gidding', one of the famous Four Quartets.

Publication

Fourth Estate (2013), Paperback, 288 pages

Physical description

288 p.; 8.27 inches

ISBN

0732291208 / 9780732291204
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