Full name: Warlight: A novel

Author: Michael Ondaatje Year: 2018 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780525521198

In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel. Similar books: A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase by Louise Walters Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard London Belles by Annie Groves Transcription by Kate Atkinson Battle Cry by Leon Uris The Avenue Goes to War by R. F. Delderfield The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy Four Freedoms by John Crowley Whistle by James Jones Hornet Flight by Ken Follett La's Orchestra Saves The World by Alexander McCall Smith Ulverton by Adam Thorpe The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje The Alice Network by Kate Quinn A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey The Girl from Krakow by Alex Rosenberg