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Blurb: “Winner of the 2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award & the British SF Award
In 1936, twin brothers return to Britain from the Berlin Olympic Games with bronze medals and a young Jewish woman, a refugee from the Nazis, concealed inside their van. This act of compassion sets in train a sequence of events which has the potential to change the course of history.
Soon the brothers' bond is broken apart by their rivalry for the girl, and the first of many separations takes place. World War Il is looming, but the brothers take different paths: Jack becomes an RAF pilot; Joe, a conscientious objector, works for the Red:
Cross. Both are destined to become victims of the war, this pacifist and this warrior.
Five years later, in Britain's hour of greatest danger, an opportunity for peace unexpectedly arises. A larger separation, a dividing of ways, becomes a real possibility. Which of the brothers is to stride briefly across the stage of history?
'A major work of alternate history, masterfully conceived and written, thoughtful, audacious, a stab to the heart of historical appearances.
The Separation is not just another respectable realist tome about World War II, but, rather, one of the finest SF novels of 2002.' Locus
'Priest builds an impressive set of imagined places and times...
He knows the literature of the mass bombing raids and the debate as to their morality as well as he knows the blackout and the sceptical version of Churchill's role.' Independent”
ISBN 0-575-07003-X