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The Second Sleep: A Novel - Softcover

Robert Harris

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Synopsis

A cautionary tale set within a gripping mystery from the international bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich .

"All civilizations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is."

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote English village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?

Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes--about himself, his faith and the history of his world--will be tested to destruction.

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