A World of Other People
- Authors
- Carroll, Steven
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Date
- 2013-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.24 MB
- Lang
- en
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, *A World of Other People* traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society′s thin-lipped disapproval. The poet TS Eliot, with whom Iris shares firewatching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem ′Little Gidding′, one of the famous Four Quartets.