Waiting for SunriseVienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. Their subsequent affair is both passionate and particularly destructive. Moving from Vienna to London's West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 8 |
Section 3 | 14 |
Section 4 | 20 |
Section 5 | 27 |
Section 6 | 33 |
Section 7 | 35 |
Section 8 | 47 |
Section 23 | 192 |
Section 24 | 195 |
Section 25 | 210 |
Section 26 | 223 |
Section 27 | 233 |
Section 28 | 248 |
Section 29 | 257 |
Section 30 | 268 |
Section 9 | 60 |
Section 10 | 62 |
Section 11 | 66 |
Section 12 | 72 |
Section 13 | 74 |
Section 14 | 76 |
Section 15 | 101 |
Section 16 | 103 |
Section 17 | 106 |
Section 18 | 117 |
Section 19 | 140 |
Section 20 | 149 |
Section 21 | 168 |
Section 22 | 172 |
Section 31 | 274 |
Section 32 | 277 |
Section 33 | 280 |
Section 34 | 285 |
Section 35 | 300 |
Section 36 | 313 |
Section 37 | 316 |
Section 38 | 325 |
Section 39 | 335 |
Section 40 | 341 |
Section 41 | 352 |
Section 42 | 355 |
Section 43 | 357 |
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