Now We Shall Be Entirely Free - Andrew Miller

Miller's is a novel of delicately shifting moods, a pastoral comedy, and passionate romance story alternating with a blackly menacing thriller.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 Mr. Miller strikes an impressive balance between adventure and atmosphere.--The Wall Street Journal When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and in England's wars against Napoleon, the Battle of Corruna stands out as a humiliation: a once-proud army forced to retreat, civilized men reduced to senseless acts of cruelty. Slowly regaining his health, Lacroix journeys north to the misty isles of Scotland with the intent of forgetting the horrors of the war. Unbeknownst to him, however, something else has followed him back from the war--something far more dangerous than a memory...