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We That Are Left

by Clare Clark
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A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Washington Post "Notable Fiction Book of 2015"
"[A] lavishly detailed historical novel that doesn't just recreate the past but alters your perception of it."—New York Times Book Review
"As always, [Clark's] environments are deliciously luxe. . . With splendid breadth and depth, We That Are Left accommodates an era's worth of historical reverberations within the confines of its highly polished rooms."—Washington Post

Growing up at Ellinghurst, their crumbling family estate, all three Melville children dream of escape. Headstrong Jessica yearns for the glitter and glamor of London while Phyllis longs to attend university. The adored Theo, meanwhile, eclipses everyone around him. None of the children take much notice of Oskar Grunewald, their mother's science-obsessed godson, who instead seeks refuge in Ellinghurst's enormous library.
But when the cataclysm of the Great War devastates the Melvilles' world and reshapes their futures, Jessica and Phyllis must forge new paths in a world that no longer plays by the old rules. As Oskar is drawn reluctantly back into the Melville family fold, his life entwines with theirs in ways that will transform all of their futures forever.

In We That Are Left, Clare Clark brings us a new story of an old family whose reckoning with change will haunt and resonate for many generations.

"We That Are Left is still haunting me. It offers an utterly convincing sense of period; a story that tugs at you; characters who are surprising, tender, hurt; emotions crushed, misunderstood, exploding; on every page the unresolved intensity of real life."—William Nicholson, author of Lovers of Amherst

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    October 13, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9780544130166
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    • Library Journal

      May 1, 2015

      Growing up in the years before the Great War, Jessica Melville longs for the bright lights of London and sister Phyllis for a chance to go to university while knowing that only their golden-boy brother will be allowed his dreams. Meanwhile, they're rather merciless toward shy Oskar Grunewald, son of a family friend and a genius in math and physics, who has an enormous impact on the sisters postwar. Clark boasts two Orange Prize long-listers, The Great Stink and Savage Lands.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      August 1, 2015

      Ellinghurst Castle, one of England's fine old residences, was built by Jeremiah Melville as a folly complete with turrets, a moat, and a drawbridge. Over a 300-year period, it was lovingly maintained and embellished by successive generations of Melvilles until World War I upset the natural order of things. With the loss of son and heir Theo, his mother, Eleanor, abandons her home and family to seek comfort from a succession of crank spiritualists. It then falls to her daughters to carry on the Melville legacy. But younger daughter Jessica resents the lost opportunities to find a husband that a formal coming-out season would have provided, while her sister, Phyllis, after serving as a battlefield nurse, wants to be free from convention and pursue a career in archaeology. Of the few remaining males in the family circle, it may be Oscar Greenwood, Eleanor's godson, who can save the castle for which he holds almost as much affection as he does for Phyllis. VERDICT As in Downton Abbey, Ellinghurst Castle suffers a reversal of fortunes after the war, and like Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth and so many other young women of her generation, Jessica and Phyllis see their postwar choices narrowed and their bright futures dimmed. Clark's wonderful new novel deserves as much love and attention as those two beloved works. [See Prepub Alert, 4/6/15.]--Barbara Love, formerly with Kingston Frontenac P.L., Ont.

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