The Undertaking Matthew Richardson Thomas begins a quest that

Thomas begins a quest that will lead him through fields smeared with the smoke of fires set by the rampaging English

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A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London

Essie Fox is the mistress of gothic Victoriana utterly beguiling and rendered in exquisite detail

true and tragic and funny and hopeful and big - big enough somehow to contain all of our stories and all of our lives inside it' JOANNA GLEN

The Undertaking Matthew Richardson Thomas begins a quest thatA soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves