- Published: 5 November 2020
- ISBN: 9781473565036
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
The Autumn of the Ace
- Published: 5 November 2020
- ISBN: 9781473565036
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
Louis de Bernieres is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste
Evening Standard
De Bernieres is a singular, cherishable voice.
Mail on Sunday
Both heart-warming and heart-wrenching, this novel will captivate the senses and make you laugh as well as cry. Brimming with incredible, quirky characters and beautiful, lyrical writing, The Autumn of the Ace is the ideal book for lovers of historical fiction
Carmen Coetsee, South African
[The Autumn of the Ace is] penned with de Bernières's quiet, deprecating humour and sharp observation
Vanessa Berridge, Sunday Express
A charming, old-fashioned read - just the novel for a spell in lockdown
Scotsman
A compelling and moving conclusion to a saga with epic scope
Anthony Gardner, Mail on Sunday
An epic, touching book about what love can do. It's heartening stuff... If you wish to mark the drawing in of winter evenings with something romantic, adventurous, well researched and engrossing - a story full of life and warmth and also a robust philosophy of love and redemption - then de Bernières is, as ever, your man.
The Times
Moving...As in his previous novels, De Bernières is an exceptional letter writer
Francesca Angelini, Sunday Times
Richly interwoven... [The Autumn of the Ace is] very successful, partly because of the range of different perspectives and partly thanks to De Bernières deprecating humour and sharp observation
Vanessa Berridge, UK Press Syndication