Book description
Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The
streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the
cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests.
Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence,
wants more than the conventional comforts of marriage. Spirited and
courageous, she is determined to fight for 'the greatest cause the
world has ever known'.
Will Maitland, the rising star of county cricket, is a man of
traditional opinions. He is both intrigued and appalled by Connie's
outspokenness and her quest for self-fulfilment.
Their lives become inextricably entangled just as the outbreak of
war drives them further apart. Buffeted and spun by choice and chance,
Connie and Will struggle against the aftershocks of war and the
changes it wreaks. This is a deeply affecting story of love against
all the odds.
Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. Since 1998 he has been
the film critic of the
Independent
. His first novel
The Rescue Man
(2009) won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.
