The Dust That Falls from Dreams

Author(s): Louis de Bernieres

Lesbian Fiction

In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent, with their 'pals' the Pitt boys on one side of the fence and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood innocence and adventure are destined to be followed by the apocalypse that will overwhelm their world as they come to adulthood. For Rosie, the path ahead is full of challenges: torn between her love for two young men, her sense of duty and her will to live her life to the full, she has to navigate her way through extraordinary times. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War? Louis de Bernieres' magnificent and moving novel follows the lives of an unforgettable cast of characters as the Edwardian age disintegrates into the Great War, and they strike out to seek what happiness can be salvaged from the ruins of the old world.


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Against the backdrop of the Great War, Rosie must choose between two men who have loved her since they were childhood friends together.

Louis de Bernieres is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter, a collection of stories Notwithstanding and a collection of poetry, Imagining Alexandria.

General Fields

  • : 9781846558771
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Harvill Secker
  • : October 2015
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Louis de Bernieres
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813
  • : 352