![]() ![]() And the ripple effects of that night will then go on to shape the next 35 years of their mostly separate lives. Two characters, a young soldier and an art professor, at different ends of their lives, share a meal one night during World War Two in a ruined wine cellar. There’s a global catastrophe (a world war), followed by a freak act of nature (the 1966 Florence floods) as the backdrop to all the action that happens. “But when the pandemic hit, the book allowed people to imagine another country, imagine a time away from the familiar.” “It was the politics of this country and our-right wing government, and the divisiveness… all of which we are completely going into the sewer with now,” she adds drily. “It was early on in 2018 that I started writing it and it had the weight of Brexit on it,” Sarah says over Zoom from her kitchen. ![]()
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