Regular marked price: $14.95Discount Price: $10.17
Cost Savings: $4.78 (32%)Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN num: 9781933397320
ISBN number: 1933397322
Label: Felony & Mayhem
Manufacturer: Felony & Mayhem
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: April 15, 2006
Publishing house: Felony & Mayhem
Sale Popularity Level: 319808
Studio: Felony & Mayhem
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many working-class families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kids . . . but no one ever came for Simon Thorn. His name appears on no list of the evacuated children. And none of his meager belongings offer any clues to his origins. Now an adult, newly moved to London, Simon is puzzled by an odd sense of familiarity when he walks down certain streets. He remembers his years of terrible nightmares – nightmares that would cause him to wake up screaming, terrifying his bewildered foster parents. And he resolves, once and for all, to find out where he originally came from . . . even as everything he uncovers suggests that, really, he doesn’t want to know. Widely praised for his deliciously, maliciously witty mysteries, the multi-award-winning Barnard takes a decidedly different tack in this fascinating novel of wartime London and the dark side of identity.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers -
"Out of the Blackout" is another excellent republished story in the Felony & Mayhem series that has brought to light some terrific vintage British mysteries to the American reader.
This short novel begins early in WWII with the appearance of a five-year old evacuee from the London blitz in a West Country English town. The undocumented child is placed with a loving family who eventually adopt him when the birth parents fail to appear by the end of the war. Eventually given the name Simon Cutheridge, the boy has a happy childhood with his new parents and successfully completes a university education. As he matures, Simon Cutheridge becomes obsessed with how he came to his adoptive family and what situation could have possibly led to his abandonment by his biological family.
The bulk of this very well told story is devoted to Simon's methodical tracking of his origins. What he learns is an increasingly bleak saga of a suburban London family to which he is probably connected. Though repulsed by what he is uncovering, Simon is driven to discover the ultimate truth about his parentage. Along the way, his own life is increasingly a positive contrast to what is life might have been without the intervention of the malevolent fate of the war.
This is an excellent read which has the psychological and moral strengths of a Ruth Rendel or Reginald Hill novel.
Rated by buyers 
-
I bought this book because it was with the "others who bought this book, also bought***" I am so happy to have purchased this book, and read it on my commute in two days.
The author gave a couple of wonderful plot twists to his story that I definitely didn't expect.
Rated by buyers 
-
One of the pleasures of reading a Robert Barnard mystery is his sly, moderately malicious and very funny social commentary on modern British life. In this book, however, his characterizations of the bad guys are really bitter and vicious, and his hero has no coherent motivation to pursue the course of conduct he does.
That said, the depiction of children being evacuated from London to the country without their families is marvelous, and the writing is excellent, as usual. Fans of Barnard will want to read this book, but it is not a good introduction to his work for anyone else.
Rated by buyers -
This was the very first Robert Barnard books that I purchased & read,. It was so good, tht over the years we have boght & read every one of his novels.We just started his lates Dying Flames.
Mr. Barnard has such a fantastic writing style, you cannot put hia books down. We look forward to every one of his & Simon Brett's noverls as MUST reading material.
Rated by buyers 
-
Spleggheeetthhh.!!!!!...Yuck....did I say "terrible" already?? Sheez, this book is bad...I just don't know what came over me to even start reading it. What a sham of a plot...I think I read the same thing before in an old issue of TRUE magazine. G-yuckkk!
Do yourself a favor...stick some needles in your eyes instead of reading this tripe.
Find other books like this one:
