2012
Parade’s end
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Description
Description
In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate Tory statistician in London; Sylvia Satterthwaite, his promiscuous and self-centred socialite wife who has married him knowing that she was already pregnant (possibly by another man); and Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette, pacifist daughter of a lady novelist, who is torn between her idealism and her attraction to Christopher. As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Christopher is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three characters, as well as everyone else in their elite circle.
