Seven Houses in France
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846554476 (1846554470)
Publish date: November 3rd 2011
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
The book opens with a rather dour new officer arriving by boat on his first posting abroad. The officer, Chrysostome, doesn’t attempt to fit in with his fellow officers and they, in turn, despise his puritan upbringing, not only is he blatantly religious to a fundamental degree, but he refuses the u...