Partisans Daughter Author:LOUIS DE BERNIERES Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, A Partisan?s Daughter features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who has recently moved to London. — While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a stre... more »et corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee.
His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world ? from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito?s Partisans through her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London.
A Partisan?s Daughter is about the power of storytelling. It is also a beautifully wrought and unlikely love story which is both compelling and moving to read.« less