by William Nicholson · Quercus Publishing · tapa dura · ISBN 9781780876207
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«Motherland» is the historical novel by William Nicholson, published by Quercus Publishing in hardcover (544 pages, in English).
Alice travels to Normandy to meet her paternal grandmother, who tells her about a family love story. In the summer of 1942, Kitty, an ambulance driver in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Navy commando, and Larry, a Mountbatten officer. The love triangle coincides with the Dieppe raid, whose consequences mark several generations.
First edition published by Quercus on February 14, 2013. William Nicholson is a screenwriter for films such as Gladiator and Shadowlands.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in World War II and family stories that cross generations.
Field Marshal William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson, was a British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Mahdist War, the Third Anglo-Burmese War, the Second Boer War and the First World War. He became Chief of the Imperial General Staff and was closely involved in the reorganisation of the British Army in the early years of the 20th century.
