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The Second Sleep

The Second Sleep

by Robert Harris

 The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Munich, An Officer and A Spy and Fatherland

Format
PB
Category
Fiction
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd
Publish Date
August 2019

 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes - about himself, his faith and the history of his world - will be tested to destruction.

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