Author:Danielle Steel
How do you tell someone what it's like to kill a man hand to hand, run a bayonet through his guts, or shoot a sniper in the face who turns out to be a woman? How do you explain the nine-year-old boy who throws a grenade and kills your best friend? How do you tell them what it's like? Or about the sunsets on the mountains or the green of Viet Nam, or the sounds and the smells, and the people, and the girl who can't even say your name, but you know you love her. There was nothing any of them could say. So most of them rode home in silence.
For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column for Americans from the front, before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her, and for the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again.
A skilful Steel pricks at all our senses
—— Sunday ExpressPretty damn gripping, and fans of weepie novels will adore the touching love-story element. Totally addictive
—— HEATTremendous, compassionate, exuberant
—— IndependentThe reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty
—— GuardianTremendousm compassionate, exuberant
—— Michael Bywater , IndependentWonderful rites-of-passage novel... where the author's blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite
—— Mariella FrostrupIt is very funny, with an Alan Bennett sort of humour, beautifully written, quirky and likely to cause much tuttutting in conservative quarters
—— Daily MailThis lesbian coming of age story set in northern England doesn't seem to have aged a bit
—— IndependentAn instant classic
—— Rosemary Goring , HeraldYou'll find everything you need to know about mustering the courage to embrace your true self and live life without fear in Winterson's hugely engaging semi-autobiographical novel
—— Mariella Frostrup , Sunday Times
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