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Small Wars
Sadie Jones
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Description for Small Wars
Paperback. Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat of the emergency; the British are defending the colony against Cypriots. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 map,. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat of the emergency; the British are defending the colony against Cypriots - schoolboys and armed guerillas alike - battling for union with Greece.
Clara shares Hal's sense of duty and honour; she knows she must settle down, make the best of things, smile. But action changes Hal, and the atrocities he is drawn into take him not only further from Clara but himself, too; a betrayal that is only the first step down a dark path.
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099540526
SKU
V9780099540526
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About Sadie Jones
Sadie Jones is the critically acclaimed author of six novels. Her first, The Outcast, won the Costa First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and was a Richard and Judy Number One bestseller. Her second, Small Wars, 2009, was longlisted for the Orange Prize. The Uninvited Guests, was published in 2010. Also a screenwriter, Sadie adapted The Outcast for BBC Television in 2014, directed by Iain Softley and starring George Mackay. Her fourth novel, Fallout, came out the same year, and her fifth, The Snakes in 2019. Her sixth novel, Amy and Lan, was published in July 2022. Sadie is the daughter of the Jamaican screenwriter, novelist and poet, Evan Jones, and British actress, Joanna Jones. She was born and brought up in London, and is married to the architect, Tim Boyd.
Reviews for Small Wars
Jones is fabulous at this, offering titbits of danger and discord while keeping a cool, matter of fact tone for the big horrors... This is, at heart, a moving love story
Sunday Times
Jones's first novel, The Outcast, winner if the Costa First Novel Award, was a very hard act to follow. Her second, however, is even better... Jones's research is impeccable, and her emotional intelligence outstanding
Kate Saunders
The Times
In this exciting novel that resonates with contemporary parallels, Jones is unusual among women writers in focusing as much on the thrills and terrors of frontline action as its psychological fall out...it's a movie waiting to happen
Emma Hagestadt
Independent
Ambitious...uncannily good at the evocation of charged moments
Guardian
Here Jones's talent really shows... In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs
Stephanie Cross
Times Literary Supplement
Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping
Metro
An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers
Daily Telegraph
Poignant and compelling, Sadie Jones's latest novel captures the claustrophobia of a passionate marriage that is overwhelmed by circumstance
Eithne Farry
Marie Claire
Small Wars is a gripping account of emotional disintegration against a backdrop of emotional repression... A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity
Sunday Telegraph
Elegant, powerful with a huge emotional punch
Woman and Home
Sunday Times
Jones's first novel, The Outcast, winner if the Costa First Novel Award, was a very hard act to follow. Her second, however, is even better... Jones's research is impeccable, and her emotional intelligence outstanding
Kate Saunders
The Times
In this exciting novel that resonates with contemporary parallels, Jones is unusual among women writers in focusing as much on the thrills and terrors of frontline action as its psychological fall out...it's a movie waiting to happen
Emma Hagestadt
Independent
Ambitious...uncannily good at the evocation of charged moments
Guardian
Here Jones's talent really shows... In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs
Stephanie Cross
Times Literary Supplement
Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping
Metro
An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers
Daily Telegraph
Poignant and compelling, Sadie Jones's latest novel captures the claustrophobia of a passionate marriage that is overwhelmed by circumstance
Eithne Farry
Marie Claire
Small Wars is a gripping account of emotional disintegration against a backdrop of emotional repression... A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity
Sunday Telegraph
Elegant, powerful with a huge emotional punch
Woman and Home