Sidestepping the incipient Algerian War of Independence, a young Algerian Jew leaves Paris for a lakeside town in the French Alps. Years later he is haunted by this seemingly idyllic summer.... read more
This love story tacks between an English boarding school and the Western Front. A moving historical debut; compelling and unexpectedly funny (for the Somme).
The attraction of opposites on the French Riviera - the bohemian and the strait-laced - has lasting consequences for its adolescent protagonists, which play out over a decade. Well-structure... read more
A powerful fictional investigation into the separateness of art and artist, through a vicar's discovery of under-age hanky-panky, and an artist's relations with his teenage models.