Bad Relations av Cressida Connolly

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<p><b>A TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE <br><br>''<i>Bad Relations</i> is an amazing achievement and one of the most satisfying books you''re likely to read this year'' <i>The Times</i></b><b><br><br>''Haunting and beautiful... In recent British fiction I can think</b><b>only of Tessa Hadley who rivals Connolly in exacting such intricate, compelling drama from close-knit families... I don''t often wish a book were longer, but this one I did'' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William''s experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate through his family over the next two centuries.<br>In the 1970s, William''s descendants invite Stephen, a distant relation, to stay in their house in the English countryside - but their golden summer entanglements will end in a shocking fall from grace.<br><br>Half a century later, a confr