The dust that falls from dreams

Resource Information

The work The dust that falls from dreams represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The dust that falls from dreams

Statement of responsibility

Louis de Bernières

Creator

• De Bernières, Louis

Author

• De Bernières, Louis

Subject

• Family saga
• Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Domestic fiction
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Family saga
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. With their neighbors, the two Pitt brothers and the three Pendennis boys, they are The Pals. But these days of childhood camaraderie and adventure are brought to an abrupt end by the outbreak of World War I, in which some will lose their lives, some their loved ones, some their faith, and all of them their innocence. We follow them through the years of the war in the trenches, in air battles, in the hospitals where the women serve with as much passion and nearly as much hardship as the men at the front and its aftermath as the modern world slowly emerges out of the ashes of the old. A wholly immersive novel about a particular time and place, this novel also illuminates the timeless ways in which men and women carry profound loss alongside indelible hope

Cataloging source

Nz

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction