A return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of ch
aracters that made CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN such an extraordinary hit (2.5 mil
lion copies sold). In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I,
Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentri
c household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pen
dennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by
the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood.
When the boys end up scattered along the Western Front, Rosie is left confused b
y her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Can
she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations
that follow the Great War?
