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As the 1939-1945 war slows to a clumsy halt, a trembling world holds out its arms to welcome peace back home again. Alice Fairley, her friends and her family are surprised to find themselves so unprepared for peacetime. In a way, it's like starting all over again: all the things one was confident about have disappeared or changed shape somehow, while things which were acceptable, or even pleasant, now seem different, dull, irksome. Noisy whispers of spy-rings and foreign conspiracies provoke shockwaves of malice and stinging intolerance. The world has grown up. Quickly, they discover that the battle is not over yet . . . persistent spectres of duty and guilt pick their victims indiscriminately.
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Welcome Strangers, Mary Hocking
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1987
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- Titel
- Welcome Strangers
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Mary Hocking
- Verlag
- Abacus
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1987
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0349117039
- ISBN13
- 9780349117034
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Historische Romane, Familie, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Gesellschaftskritik, Schuld
- Bewertung
- 3,9 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- As the 1939-1945 war slows to a clumsy halt, a trembling world holds out its arms to welcome peace back home again. Alice Fairley, her friends and her family are surprised to find themselves so unprepared for peacetime. In a way, it's like starting all over again: all the things one was confident about have disappeared or changed shape somehow, while things which were acceptable, or even pleasant, now seem different, dull, irksome. Noisy whispers of spy-rings and foreign conspiracies provoke shockwaves of malice and stinging intolerance. The world has grown up. Quickly, they discover that the battle is not over yet . . . persistent spectres of duty and guilt pick their victims indiscriminately.