Months later, Sarah and Tom meet again at the psychiatric ward of an Italian hospital, drawn there by the appearance of a mysterious patient the doctors call Douglas Fairbanks (after the silent film actor) - a shell-shocked soldier with no memory of who he is. Quickly, the two fall into a complicated affair against the ghostly backdrop of the ruined city.
#AFTERMATH BOOK VERDUN DRIVER#
Tom is an orphan from Chicago, a former ambulance driver now gathering bones from the battlefield Sarah is an expatriate from Boston searching for the husband who wandered off from his division and hasn't been seen since. In 1920, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged. I absolutely adored it' Paula McLain, bestselling author of THE PARIS WIFE and CIRCLING THE SUNĪ sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart. If there's any justice, this novel will be widely read and recognized. ' The Verdun Affair is ravishingly beautiful, and as much about love as about war.
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