Warlight

A vivid, captivating novel about love, intrigue, and the desire to live despite everything

• The CULTUREAD fiction series
• National bestseller

The horrors of World War II are behind us. London is recovering from a bloody war.

Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his sister Rachel, abandoned by their parents, find themselves under the care of a mysterious gentleman, nicknamed Butterfly. It is possible that now their fate is connected with the criminal and his unusual friends - extraordinary people with a mysterious common past. They lie to the children, but are ready to lay down their lives to protect them from danger.

But one day, Nathaniel and Rachel's mother returns. Without a father, apologies, or explanations. A decade passes - and Nathaniel finds himself in a bizarre labyrinth of memories. Jumping through time, facts and secrets, wandering between the imaginary and the real, Nathaniel will unravel the tangle of secrets of his own life. Only in this way will he be able to learn the very truth that will destroy everything...