![]() ![]() Kate Mosse has long held a fascination with modern-day characters whose lives connect through time to the desperate history of the Cathars in the Languedoc region of France. By turns thrilling, poignant, and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. ![]() By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries, and discovered his own role in the life of this old remote town. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Freezing and dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution, Freddie is travelling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. In Freddie Watson’s case, the battlefields took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. World War I robbed England and France of an entire generation of friends, lovers and futures. So, I’m happy to review her latest novel, The Winter Ghosts. I have a weakness for World War I novels and an even bigger weakness for Kate Mosse, a British author known for her best-selling novels Labyrinth and Sepulchre. ![]()
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