{"product_id":"9781448207572","title":"The Dark of Summer","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dark of Summer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Eric Linklater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of the Second World War an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumours of a collaboration with the Nazi regime in Norway. What he finds changes lives, not least his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one who reads this book will forget the frozen corpse tied to a chair in an icehouse guarded by two drunken seamen, or the raging storm which batters their, ship as they carry the body to Shetland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's just the beginning. As the tale takes grip, the reader becomes haunted, just as the characters are haunted by a sense of guilt and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the finest of Linklater's later, deeper, darker novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark of Summer \u003c\/i\u003ecombines national and family histories as it sets out to understand the past, redeem the corrosion of memory and find meaning in a world of divided loyalties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781448207572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Reader","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40616138801358,"sku":"9781448207572","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781448207572","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}