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Historical Fiction · 2005 · PG-13

Angels in the Gloom

by Anne Perry

A wounded chaplain home from the trenches discovers the war's darkest secrets reach Cambridge itself

It's March 1916, and Joseph Reavley, stumbling across the wastes of no man's land to rescue a comrade, is badly wounded. Sent home on sick leave, he finds recovery slow and hard. His sister Hannah is caring for him, but he can't share the grim reality of life in the trenches with her - anxious as she is about Archie, her husband, away at sea. War is changing England at a pace that Hannah finds alarming, and she wonders if the old certainties will ever return. But it's a delight to both her and Joseph when Shanley Corcoran, an old friend, comes to visit. Corcoran confides in Joseph that he's co

For14+GenreHistorical FictionLength352 pagesRead time~9 hours

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Violence

Some

Espionage violence; WWI referenced with moderate intensity; moderate thriller action

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Barely any

No significant sexual content

Substance Use

Barely any

Minimal substance use

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Strong psychological weight; war's long shadow reaching home; the cost of the ongoing conspiracy

What this book is about

March 1916. Joseph Reavley returns to Cambridge to recover from wounds sustained in Flanders, only to find that the sinister conspiracy his parents died to expose has followed him home. A new weapon threatens to give one side an insurmountable advantage in the war, and the Reavley siblings must prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. The third Reavley novel balances home-front espionage with the ongoing horror at the front.

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World War I setting

Espionage and conspiracy

Weapons of war threat

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