Random Acts Of Heroic Love
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407033310
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Random Acts Of Heroic Love

The Heartbreaking Richard and Judy Bestseller

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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER: Can love outwit death? A heartbreaking epic story of two lives sustained by the memory of love

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BESTSELLING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD

'A lush, romantic novel' Daily Mail

1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever.

1917: Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Seven thousand kilometres over the Russian Steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The Great War may be over, but Moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil war. When Moritz finally limps back into his village to claim the hand of the woman he left behind, will she still be waiting?

'Special' Sunday Express
'Tender' Observer
'Mesmerising' Publishing News
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407033310
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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About the author

Danny Scheinmann

DANNY SCHEINMANN is a writer, actor and storyteller. He has performed at the National Theatre and in over thirty countries. His tours include storytelling in Siberia and a year and a half working for an avant-garde theatre group creating shows with street children in Colombia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. He also co-wrote and acted in the acclaimed independent film The West Wittering Affair. He was born in Manchester and lives in London with his wife and three children.

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Praise for Random Acts Of Heroic Love

A tour de force... mesmerizing

Publishing News

Really is as special as its press suggests... beautifully told... an amazingly assured debut

Sunday Express

Tender and insightful

Observer

This riveting novel is an unforgettable tale of two men sustained by love in times of conflict

The Lady

Two strikingly different tales of love and grief are gradually revealed to have more in common than just the tenactiy of both men to cling desperately to the memory of love... a lush, romantic novel

Daily Mail
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