Book description
>Almost at once, and without great resistance, he is seduced by the
wife of the local squire. Harriet s husband is an older man -
hot-tempered, impoverished, gone to seed - who once fought famously
against the Black and Tans. Soon this eternal triangle becomes a local
scandal, and the atmosphere of threat and violence, intensified by the
approaching war in Europe, leads to a horrific murder.
The Private Wound
is Nicholas Blake s last book, written with such intensity of feeling
and depth of character that it is widely regarded as his best.>
>Almost at once, and without great resistance, he is seduced by the
wife of the local squire. Harriet s husband is an older man -
hot-tempered, impoverished, gone to seed - who once fought famously
against the Black and Tans. Soon this eternal triangle becomes a local
scandal, and the atmosphere of threat and violence, intensified by the
approaching war in Europe, leads to a horrific murder.
The Private Wound
is Nicholas Blake s last book, written with such intensity of feeling
and depth of character that it is widely regarded as his best.>
