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The Travellers

The Travellers

The Travellers

14/04/2015 by Ann Swinfen

Sofia Niklai, a reclusive exile, and Kate Milburn, locked in a stifling marriage, form a tentative friendship on a windswept beach in  Northumbria. While Sofia forces herself to confront her father’s diaries, Kate must face half-remembered shadows from her childhood. Together they make an impulsive journey to Hungary, Sofia’s homeland. It is a journey from which neither can return unaltered. Their meeting in Hungary with István Rudnay, also marked by the dark experiences of his youth, leads them to a discovery of the warmth and love so lacking in their own lives, whilst he in turn comes to a reconciliation with the past and hope for the future. Sharply observed and recounted with tenderness and wisdom, The Travellers delineates the intense joys and sorrows of individual lives upon a broad canvas of recent European history.

“I very much admired the pace of the story, the changes of place and time and the echoes and repetitions – things lost and found and meetings and partings.” Penelope Fitzgerald

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