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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Bride of Almond Tree
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'Robert Hillman’s previous novel, The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, captivated readers around the world.

'His new novel is also a story about unlikely love. World War II is over and Hiroshima lies in a heap of poisoned rubble when young Quaker Wesley Cunningham returns home to the village of Almond Tree. He served as a stretcher-bearer and has seen his fair share of horror. Now he intends to build beautiful houses and to marry, having fallen in love with his neighbour Beth Hardy.

'Beth has other plans. An ardent Communist, she is convinced that the Party and Stalin’s Soviet Union
hold the answers to all the world’s evils. She doesn’t believe in marriage; in any case, her devotion is to the cause.

'Beth’s ideals will exact a ruinously high price. But Wes will not stop loving her. This is the story of their journey through the catastrophic mid-twentieth century—from summer in Almond Tree to Moscow’s bitter winter and back again—to find a way of being together.

'The Bride of Almond Tree is a book of great loves and difficult choices.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2021 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2021
      ISBN: 9781922330666
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Faber ,
      2021 .
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      Extent: 359p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st July 2021
      ISBN: 9780571366422

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