September, 1941: Mary arrives in war-torn London nursing a broken heart and a painful secret. When she is offered her dream post as an assistant in the fabric department at Liberty\"s, she knows this is the fresh start she needs. Amid the store\"s vibrant prints and sumptuous interiors, Mary finds a new family who can help her to heal....

Ford Madox Ford\"s extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in Penguin Classics. The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years....

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War, and whose loveless, adultery-ridden relationships are strained and gradually disintegrate, with tragic consequences....

The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford\"s masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a virtuoso performance of how to use an \\\"unreliable narrator....

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London, 1942 Flo Canning’s heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading since the outbreak of war. As Flo throws herself into the role of fabric manager at Liberty’s, old and new friends alike help pull her from a whirl of despair. Between work and home life there’s plenty to keep Flo occupied....

March, 1942: new mother Alice Milwood is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Liberty’s. Despite her husband still being missing in action, Alice is determined to give baby Arthur the best possible start....

Ford Madox Ford\"s great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, Parade\"s End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the First World War....

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent....

Originally entitled The Saddest Story, this is a heartbreaking, yet darkly witty, tale of betrayal and conflict in the years before World War I. Through a series of flashbacks, the seemingly meek John Dowell tells the story of two failing marriages....

In his masterly sequence of novels, Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford traces the history of a house and a family at the time of the First World War. This is a picture of Edwardian England at its apogee....

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