In the years before 1914 the world is about to change. But it is not war threatening to break out; it is revolution. Following the disintegration of their parents’ marriage, Richard and Edward Wilson find themselves thrown together in pre-war Vienna, striving to match up to the ideals of their father, and confronted by all the forces of love and decay that flourish in a crumbling, thousand-year Empire. But with so many stones falling around them each must plot their own path and decide: to avoid being crushed, is it better to go forwards or back?
New Edition published August 2021.
Available online through (among others) the Waterstones link below:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-long-drawn-aisle/simon-marshall/9781919608907
Simon Marshall 