Dead Man's Embers
Mari Strachan
“Davey’s face darkens and he grabs the figure from the tablecloth and throws it into the fire where it immediately begins to smoulder. ‘Cannon fodder,’ he says in a conversational tone. ‘Cannon fodder, little Osian’”
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With her husband broken by war, does one young woman have the strength to bring him back to life?
In the aftermath of the Great War, Non Davies wakes one morning to find her husband crouching underneath the kitchen table in a cold sweat, shouldering an imaginary rifle. What has changed her Davey so completely? A clue arrives inside a mysterious letter, which takes her to London in search of the answer. When she returns home, Non finds that the dark secrets of Davey’s past are working their way ever closer to the surface. She has to summon all her courage and compassion to restore her beloved husband and guard the fragile happiness of her war-weary village.
“With discernment and tenderness, Mari Strachan traces the Davies family’s slow journey towards recovery over the course of a long, hot summer…[The novel’s] fire takes hold and burns deep”
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“Casts light into the aftermath of the Great War…the gulf between the central characters is the space in which Mari Strachan creates the heartbeat of her novel. Her finest gift is a talent for telling stories with grace and compassion. The book has momentum from first to last”
the Scotsman
“The gradual revelation of secrets which overturn a character’s closely held beliefs…is deftly handled, providing a slow burn of suspense”
times Literary Supplement
“Strachan has a voice and vision all her own”
independent
“Extremely compelling … I loved this novel”
catherine O’flynn On The Earth Hums In B Flat
Mari Strachan
Mari Strachan and her husband live on a tiny smallholding in the hills of Ceredigion, West Wales. Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers is her second novel, following the acclaimed The Earth Hums in B Flat.
www.maristrachan.info