Alice in Exile - Tapa blanda

A haunting love story played out against the turbulent backdrop of World War One - the story of a strong, independently-minded woman caught between two men and of lovers forced apart by their different social backgrounds and the terrible circumstances of war.

Piers Paul Read's most successful work of fiction to date was an historical novel set during the Second World War, THE FREE FRENCHMAN. This new novel, in a similar vein, is a love story set in England, France and Russia, played out against the turbulent backdrop of the First World War. Full of moral and emotional conflict, this is the story of a strong, independent-minded woman caught between two men, and of lovers forced apart by their different social backgrounds and the terrible circumstances of war.