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  • The Oldie

    FRANCES WILSON

    May 04, 2022 3 minutes

    Viking £14.99

    There are many remarkable things about Cressida Connolly’s third novel, whose subject is historical recurrence, and the most striking is the timing of its publication.

    How could Connolly have known, as she imagined the impact of the Crimean War on several generations of the same family, that the book would appear just as the Russians were hellbent on destroying Ukraine?

    , which divides into three parts, begins on the battlefields of Sevastopol where,

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