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A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the First World War, from the bestselling author of }Any Human Heart{, }Restless{ and }Ordinary Thunderstorms{. Moving from Vienna to London's West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, }Waiting For Sunrise{ is a mesmerising delve into the human psyche as well as being a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe. 'To read one of his novels is like stepping into an expertly made and rather expensive motor vehicle' }Daily Telegraph
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life.
