The Autumn of the Ace
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  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473565036
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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The Autumn of the Ace

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5 Nov 2020
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5 Nov 2020
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2 Nov 2021
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Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War.

'De Bernieres is a singular, cherishable voice' Mail on Sunday

From the master of historical fiction, this book follows war hero Daniel Pitt and his unforgettable family after the Second World War.

Some bonds are hard to break...

Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home.

Daniel's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with his son, Bertie, has been a failure since Bertie was a small boy.

But after his brother Archie's death, Daniel is keen for new perspectives. He first travels to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place he loved best, and then finds himself in Canada, avoiding his family and friends back in England. Daniel and Bertie's different experiences of war, although devastating, also bring with them the opportunity for the two to reconnect.

If only they can find a way to move on from the past...

For more adventures with flying ace Daniel Pitt, see The Dust That Falls From Dreams and So Much Life Left Over.
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473565036
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

About the author

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

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Also by Louis de Bernieres

Light Over Liskeard
Station Jim
Labels and Other Stories
So Much Life Left Over
Of Love and Desire
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
The Death of Miss Agatha Feakes (Storycuts)
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Praise for The Autumn of the Ace

Louis de Bernieres is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste

Evening Standard

De Bernieres is a singular, cherishable voice.

Mail on Sunday

Both heart-warming and heart-wrenching, this novel will captivate the senses and make you laugh as well as cry. Brimming with incredible, quirky characters and beautiful, lyrical writing, The Autumn of the Ace is the ideal book for lovers of historical fiction

Carmen Coetsee, South African

[The Autumn of the Ace is] penned with de Bernières's quiet, deprecating humour and sharp observation

Vanessa Berridge, Sunday Express

A charming, old-fashioned read - just the novel for a spell in lockdown

Scotsman

A compelling and moving conclusion to a saga with epic scope

Anthony Gardner, Mail on Sunday

An epic, touching book about what love can do. It's heartening stuff... If you wish to mark the drawing in of winter evenings with something romantic, adventurous, well researched and engrossing - a story full of life and warmth and also a robust philosophy of love and redemption - then de Bernières is, as ever, your man.

The Times

Moving...As in his previous novels, De Bernières is an exceptional letter writer

Francesca Angelini, Sunday Times

Richly interwoven... [The Autumn of the Ace is] very successful, partly because of the range of different perspectives and partly thanks to De Bernières deprecating humour and sharp observation

Vanessa Berridge, UK Press Syndication
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