Warlight

<p><b>**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**</b><br><b><br>An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory family secrets and lies from the internationally acclaimed author of <i>The English Patient</i></b><br><br> It is 1945 and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister Rachel are apparently abandoned by their parents left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women all who seem determined to protect Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later Nathaniel journeys through recollection reality and imagination to uncover all he didn&#146;t know or understand in that time to piece together a story that feels something like the truth.<br><br><b> &#145;A novel of shadowy brilliance&#146;</b><i> <b>The Times</b></i><br><br> <b>&#145;Fiction as rich as beautiful as melancholy as life itself written in the visionary language of memory&#146; <i>Observer</i></b><br><br> <b>&#145;Ondaatje brilliantly threads the mysteries and disguises and tangled loyalties and personal yearnings of the secret world... I haven&#146;t read a better novel this year&#146;</b> <b><i>Telegraph</i></b></p>