The book of records Needlework & fabric crafts 'Victory '45' tells the story

'Victory '45' tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after six surrenders that heralded the Allied victory

After a scandalous near-death experience

Published By: Drawn and Quarterly

The Brooke family are gathering in their ancestral home to bury Philip: the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember

He was turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city

The book of records Needlework & fabric crafts 'Victory '45' tells the storyLina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Voyagers encyclopedia series. In this mysterious and shape shifting building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Amsterdam, excommunicated for his radical thought; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany