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as are his memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old Lionya is determined to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind German lines
fought on both sides of the civil war
and his is a story that leads us into an extraordinary world of intertwined lives
Overlooking one of the world's most spectacular harbours
Pd James: TIME TO BE IN EARNEST W9 [2015] hardback WWI **WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVELIn this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back on her earlier life. With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s and 1930s in Cambridge, and then giving birth to her second daughter during the worst of the Doodlebug bombardment in London during the war. It follows her
