The Winter of the World

By Carol Ann Lee and Carol Lee

A heartbreaking and powerful story of personal demons and the hard journey back from an abyss of betrayal in the aftermath of World War I

Journalist Alex Dyer made his name covering the bloody horrors of the European trenches. Yet even after the Great War is over, he cannot shake the guilt he feels for not serving on the front lines like his dearest childhood friend, Ted Eden. Worse still, Alex cannot put to rest the emotions that gnaw at him from the inside: his feelings for Clare, Ted's wife--a woman they both have loved more than life itself.

A masterful debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Carol Ann Lee's Winter of the World combines fascinating historical detail and color with breathtaking invention. Recalling the fire of the battlefield and the nightmare of the trenches, it brilliantly evokes a volatile time when life was frozen in the present tense and looking forward was the only thing more painful than looking back.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B004A14ULK
• ISBN13: 9780061238819
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended war/lovestory

I've never read a book before that made me cry while reading the introductory chapter. The Winter of the World is beautifully written. The story, based on the state funeral of Britain's Unknown Warrior after the Great War, is fictional but does evoke the true horrors and devastation of trench warfare in WWI. Against that backdrop, Lee tells the hopeless lovestory of love lost and the despair and finally redemption that come from it. I strongly recommend it!