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Fallen Skies

Philippa Gregory

1993506 pagesabout 8–12 hours
1993
first published
  • 1993BCA by arrangement with HarperCollinsPublishers · 576 pages · ENGISBN 9780002241861
  • 1994HarperCollinsPublishers · 640 pages · ENGISBN 9780007664276
  • 1994HarperCollinsPublishersLtd · 640 pages · ENGISBN 9780006475071
  • 1995HarperCollins · 506 pages · ENGISBN 9780060176396
  • 1995HarperCollins · 640 pages · ENGISBN 9780286151238
  • 1996G.K. Hall · 745 pages · ENGISBN 9780783816920
  • 2008Simon & Schuster · 509 pages · ENGISBN 9781416593140
  • 2002Ulverscroft Large Print · ENGISBN 9780753109250

Lily Valance is determined to forget the horrors of the war by throwing herself into the decadent pleasures of the 1920s and pursuing her career as a music hall singer. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated veteran, she's immediately drawn to his wealth and status. And Stephen, burdened by his guilt over surviving the Flanders battlefields where so many soldiers perished, sees the possibility of forgetting his anguish in Lily, but his family does not approve. Lily marries Stephen, only to discover that his family's facade of respectability conceals a terrifying combination of repression, jealousy, and violence. When Stephen's terrors merge dangerously close with reality, the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who love him to a terrible reckoning.

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ViolenceFrequent

When and where

ThemesWar

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  • Warmoderateunreviewed

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