We That Are Left
  • Published: 15 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099570479
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $19.99

We That Are Left

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15 Mar 2016
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A heartbreakingly beautiful novel about love and loss, We That Are Left explores the devastating effect of the First World War and the choices a family must make when all the conditions and convictions upon which they have constructed their lives have been shattered.

It is 1910 and to ten-year-old Oskar Grunewald, the Melville family is impossibly, incomprehensibly glamorous. Born into privilege, their certainties are as unshakeable as the walls of their Victorian castle. It is a world to which Oskar, mathematics prodigy and son of a penniless German composer, has no wish to belong.

But when Theo Melville is killed in the Great War, shattering his family’s lives, Oskar finds himself drawn reluctantly into the gaping hole his death has left behind. As Theo’s two sisters struggle to forge their paths in a world that no longer plays by the old rules, Oskar’s life becomes entwined with theirs in a way that will change all of their futures.
  • Published: 15 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780099570479
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Clare Clark

Clare Clark's critically acclaimed novels include The Great Stink and Savage Lands, both longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and writes for numerous other publications, both in the UK and the USA. She lives and works in London.

Clare Clark was born in London in 1967. A Senior Scholar at Trinity College Cambridge she graduated with a Double First in History. Her novel, The Great Stink, won the Pendleton May First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the CWA First Novel Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is married with two children and lives in London.

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Praise for We That Are Left

A wonderful, engrossing book

Violet Henderson, Vogue

If you love Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles, this rich, involving story…will appeal

Fanny Blake, Woman and Home

Some novels are like languishing in an exquisitely scented bath. This is one of them

Claire Allfree, Daily Mail

A good well-written book that I can recommend to others

Mature Times

Luciously told novel

Metro

Elegiac and elegantly written

Patricia Nicol, Sunday Times

A wonderfully atmospheric historical novel… Brilliant

Red

Historical writing of wonderful intelligence

Kate Saunders, Saga Magazine

Clark expertly spins a story of people trying to work out who they are amid the wreckage of old social certainties. Acute and perceptive

Daily Mail

A lavishly detailed historical novel that doesn't just recreate the past but alters your perception of it

New York Times

Clare Clark is one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture

Hilary Mantel

With splendid breadth and depth, We That Are Left accommodates an era's worth of historical reverberations within the confines of its highly polished rooms

Washington Post