The Leaves Are Falling

by Lucy Beckett

Winner of the 2015 Aquinas Award for Fiction

An octogenarian bookseller living alone in London has found a description of his father, as a young doctor in 1920s Breslau, in a story about Weimar Germany. Perhaps his own story might be worth telling?

In 1945, as a sixteen-year-old boy rescued from the ruins of Europe, he arrives at a Yorkshire farmhouse. Working on the farm for two years in the strange atmosphere of rural England...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586178946
• ISBN13: 9781586178949
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"