The Code of Love A true story

Linklater, Andro

ISBN 10: 0297643584 / ISBN 13: 9780297643586

Edité par Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000

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Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 235 pages. Tells the moving true story of a love that survives separation, madness and war. In 1939 Pamela Kirrage became engaged to a young RAF pilot Donald Hill. But with the onset of WW2 their plans fell apart. Hill was transferred to Hong Kong and sensing that he was caught up in the sweep of great events he began a diary in an old school exercise book. However, officers were prohibited from keeping such records and Hill devised a secret code that transformed his works into numbers. With the fall of Hong Kong, Hill became a POW but took his diary with him. This book is the story of Pamela's search to break the code in the book and to discover what Hill had endured and how it had affected him.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Code of Love A true story
• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0297643584
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780297643586
• Reliure: Hardback
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

The Code of Love is Andro Linklater's portrait of a woman's search, for over fifty years, to discover the truth about the man to whom she devoted her life. In the spring of 1939, Pamela Kirrage, headstrong and beautiful, met Donald Hill, a handsome RAF pilot. After a golden summer of courtship, they became engaged. In September, with Britain now in conflict with Germany, their plans disintegrated. Hill was transferred to the Far East to defend Hong Kong. Sensing that he was caught up in the sweep of great events, he began a diary in an old school exercise book. However, officers serving abroad were forbidden to keep such records, so Hill devised a secret code that transformed his words into numbers. When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese and Hill was captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp, he took his diary with him. The Donald Hill who returned from the war, after four brutal years of incarceration, was a dramatically changed man. Though he and Pamela married quickly, once the relief and emotion of their reunion had subsided it was obvious that Donald had been scarred deeply by his experiences. Eventually, tortured by savage flashbacks, he was confined to hospital. Pamela had always known that the numbers in the school book were a code and that somewhere within the lines of figures she would discover the key to understanding Donald's mental collapse. Eventually, after Donald's death, she found a mathematician who was able decode the diary and reveal its account of Donald's suffering in the camps. The Code of Love is an unforgettable love story. It demonstrates vividly what happens when ordinary people are caught up in global events and transports us back to a romantic world that prizes different values: honour, duty, loyalty.

À propos de l?auteur

Andro Linklater, the son of Eric Linklater, has been a writer for twenty years. This will be his sixth book.