The Lie Av Helen Dunmore

<p><b>Nominated for the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historial Fiction, and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.</b><br><br>Set during and just after the First World War, <i>The Lie</i> is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers.<br><br>Cornwall, 1920, early spring.<br><br>A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family.<br><br>Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements and terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. <br><br>Daniel has survived, but the horror and passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him. <br><br>He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie?</p>