If the Invader Comes

Beaven, Derek

ISBN 10: 1841155918 / ISBN 13: 9781841155913

Published by Fourth Estate Ltd, London, 2001

About this Item

Hardcover. Jacket is a little scufffed and scored; edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and worn. Hardcover spine base is bumped. Page block is slightly marked and tanned. Contents are sound, clean, clear. BW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: If the Invader Comes
• Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841155918
• ISBN 13: 9781841155913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition First Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

The widely anticipated 3rd novel from the author of The Acts of MutinyClarice Pike and Vic Warren are from completely different backgrounds. An impossible affair has already driven them thousands of miles apart. 1939 finds Clarice in Malaya where her father is an obscure company doctor, and Vic in East London, an unemployed shipwright badly married to Phylis, Clarice's cousin. As their feelings conspire to draw the lovers back together, the world erupts with a terrible violence. It is the relentlessness of male brutality that forces Vic to grope towards what real manhood might be.If the Invader Comes combines themes from Derek Beaven's previously acclaimed Newton's Niece and Acts of Mutiny to portray a wartime England where human relationships are threatened as much from within the family as from occupied Europe. Exciting, moving and ultimately optimistic, Derek Beaven's new novel represents a daring leap in British Fiction.

About the Author

Derek Beaven lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His first novel, Newton's Niece (1994) was shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best Novel Prize and won a Commonwealth Prize. His second, Acts of Mutiny (1998) was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize.