To Capture What We Cannot Keep - A Novel Alan Buxton "The book is absolutely excellent

"The book is absolutely excellent

sharks and modern day pirates are amongst the dangers they face

the book reveals that the 13 personalities are really ordinary mortals who acted out their dreams and aspirations and became extraordinary

So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War

about nothing but itself — or even about nothing at all — postmodernist fiction in McHale’s construction of it proves to be about (among other things) those handy literary perennials

To Capture What We Cannot Keep - A Novel Alan Buxton "The book is absolutely excellentSet against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and mile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, France a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her