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Miller, Andrew,

Now we shall be entirely free / Andrew Miller. - London : Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. - 423 pages ; 24 cm.

One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind - he cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what happened in a village on the gruelling retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he sets out instead for the Hebrides, with the vague intent of reviving his musical interests and collecting local folksongs. Lacroix sails north incognito, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer are on his trail, with orders to kill. The haven he finds on a remote island with a family of free-thinkers and the sister he falls for are not safe, at all.--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781444784664 1444784668 9781444784688 1444784684

LCCN: be2018030447

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Great Britain. Army --History--Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Fiction.
Great Britain. Army.

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1800-1899

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historical fiction.
War wounds--Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Fiction.
Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Fiction.
Veterans.
FICTION / Historical.
Veterans--England--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
England.
England--Somerset.
Great Britain.
Scotland--Hebrides.
Great Britain--History--19th century--Fiction.
Somerset (England)--History--Fiction.
Hebrides (Scotland)--History--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical--Print --Adult fiction
Historical fiction
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR6063.I3564 / N69 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92