WarlightIn a narrative as mysterious as memory itself at once both shadowed and luminous Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14 year old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less

a girl and boy are born to a noble family

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a very important cat and a decidedly bossy fianc

it shines a light on the world-making possibilities of erotic transgression and the violence that so often comes in its wake

Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad

a conspiracy is brewing

This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone

ensure their attempted evacuation is scuppered

beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world's loveliest Princess and the envy of the Russian empire

At once rich and bleak

So begins another nailbiting

but you will think it fiction