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I love Helen Dunmore's writing, and as illustrated here in her first novel, it is lyrical and poetic. Set in Cornwall and the small coastal village of Zennor during WW1. It depicts at second hand the impact and repercussions of war, the loss and trauma of the young men, the paranoia, rumours and gossip run rife over the presence of the outsiders. DH Lawrence, now a pariah with his anti-war stance, his latest book rejected, and his German wife, Frieda, have escaped here because its cheap, but the small minded locals are never going to accept them, viewing them with suspicion, spying on them, with a plethora of wildly ridiculous allegations until the couple are hounded out. The relationship that develops between Lawrence and budding local young artist and illustrator, Clare Coyne, living with her widower father is received with hostility. A Clare that is in love with her cousin John William, a traumatised soldier. A beautiful and atmospheric read that I recommend highly.