Description

From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason’s The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War.

‘Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel’ – Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See.

Vienna, 1914: Lucius is a young, idealistic medical student, whose life takes an unexpected turn with the outbreak of the Great War. Volunteering in the name of heroic battlefield tales, he finds himself in a catastrophic field-hospital, besieged by typhus, and thrust into a grueling learning process from the only remaining nurse.

The real test of his resolve comes with the arrival of an enigmatic soldier, his uniform filled with mysterious drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the course of his life.

The Winter Soldier carries you from the grand ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the icy trenches of the Eastern Front, in a gripping story of the tragedies of war, the struggles for redemption, and a poignant exploration of love born amidst despair.

Publisher Review

A touching, intensely human story of longing and love -- Georgia Hunter, author of We Were The Lucky Ones A powerful tale of a medical student in the First World War * Sunday Times Culture * Captivating . . . A novel to get lost in * Herald * One of the best books I've ever read -- Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory So real, so rich and detailed, that the room in which I was reading vanished -- Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less and The Story of a Marriage A tour-de-force. I was immersed in the grandeur of Imperial Vienna and the frozen battlefields of the Eastern Front -- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone A powerful tale * Sunday Times * Held me by the throat from the first lyrical page to the last -- Emma Donoghue Utterly convincing and written with a lyricism that belies the horrors it so unflinchingly describes * Daily Mail * One of the finest prose stylists in American fiction * New York Times * Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel - impeccably researched and totally immersive -- Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See