The winter ghosts
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Publication Date
2011.
Language
English
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"Compelling ... Mosse excels at transporting her readers into another time and another world.... A work of art."---Express Online (UK)In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic, centuries-old mystery, and discovered his own role in the life of this remote town.By turns thrilling, romantic, and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.
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9780399157158
9781101978214
9781101978214
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