"Skilful . . . daring . . . an extraordinary story" (The Guardian)
"Insightful . . . beautifully paced . . . authentic" (The Irish Times)
"[It is] the unexpected Beckett that is on show here. Baker pays tribute to a man who joined the French Resistance, narrowly escaped the Gestapo, fled south on foot and went into hiding, and was eventually awarded the Croix de Guerre" (The Times)
"Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good" (Daily Mail)
"In this worthy successor to Longbourn, she [Baker] skillfully captures Beckett’s world, the rhythms of his bare-bones prose, and the edginess of his point of view." (Publishers Weekly)
Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of marching Nazi soldiers along the Champs-Elysees.
A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes a last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. As war takes hold, he will put his own life and that of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance ...
A tale of spies and artists, deprivation, danger and passion, this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and how one man came to translate it all into art.
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