Devotion / Louisa Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Louisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Nineteen thirties--Fiction.

Nineteen thirties.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

502 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : The Borough Press, 2017.

Summary:

Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her father loves Mussolini. Ideals and convictions are not always so clear in the murky years between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second. For Tom and Kitty Locke, children of the damaged WW1 generation, visiting their cousin Nenna in Rome is a pure joy. For their adoptive parents Nadine and Riley, though, the ground is still shifting underfoot. Nobody knew in 1919 that the children they were bearing would be just ripe for the next war in 1939; nobody knew, in 1935, the implications of an Italian Jewish family supporting Mussolini. Meanwhile Peter Locke and Mabel Zachary have found each other again together in London, itself a city reborn but riddled with its own intolerances. As the heat rises across Europe, voices grow louder and everyone must brace once more to decide what should bring them together, and what must drive them apart.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780007532889

0007532881

9780007532872

0007532873

9780007532902

OCLC:

950669172