The Death of the Fronsac: A Novel

• Author(s): Neal Ascherson,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Pages: 400
• ISBN_10: 1786694360
  ISBN_13: 9781786694362
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Thrillers / Historical , Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II , Fiction / Literary , Fiction / Action & Adventure , Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense , Fiction / War & Military ,

Description:... A STORY OF SABOTAGE, BETRAYAL AND THE TERRIBLE SADNESS OF EXILE.

'Remarkable'The Times.
'A magnificent novel'The Times.
'Gripping'The Spectator.

Scotland, 1940: The Fronsac, a French warship, blows up in the Firth of Clyde. The disaster is witnessed by three locals. Jackie, a young girl who thinks she caused the explosiong by running away from school. Her mother Helen, a spirited woman married to a dreary young officer; and their lodger, a Polish soldier whose country has just been erased from the map by Hitler and Stalin.

All their lives will be changed by the death of the Fronsac.