Book description
In her prize-winning first novel, Zennor in Darkness, Helen
Dunmore reimagines the plight of D. H. Lawrence and his German wife
hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War.
Spring, 1917, and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor:
ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion,
and newspapers are full of spy stories.
Into this turmoil come D. H Lawrence and his German wife, Frieda
hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Clare
Coyne, a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin, John
William, who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shock.
Yet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that Zennor is
neither a place of recovery nor of escape . . .
'Helen Dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' Daily Mail
'A beautiful and inspired novel' John le Carr
'Secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in
them somewhere make Dunmore's stories ripple with menace and suspense'
Sunday Times
Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin: Zennor in
Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright;
A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to
the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked
Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001
Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for
Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphans;
Counting the Stars and The Betrayal, which was
longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. She is also a poet,
children's novelist and short-story writer.
Helen Dunmore has published nine novels with Penguin:
Zennor in Darkness
, which won the McKitterick Prize;
Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter,
which won the Orange Prize;
Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy;
With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege,
which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and
for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002;
Mourning Ruby
and
House of Orphans.
She is also a poet, children s novelist and short-story writer.
