The Pardon Of St Anne

Working as a news photographer in 30s Berlin, Walther Klinger becomes - by a vicious twist of fate - a society photographer for the new aristocracy of the Nazi party. Walther's complicity makes him increasingly cynical and guilty, so that - for him - the coming of war is almost a relief. In a lonely Brittany farmhouse, just before the Allied invasion, Klinger meets Julia. They begin an affair and, against the background of the horrors and normalities of the Occupation, Walther attempts to make a refuge for himself and Julia. THE PARDON OF ST ANNE is about how he succeeds, triumphantly and tragically.

William Palmer is the author of five novels,The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint AnneandThe India House,and a collection of short stories,Four Last Things.He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems,The Island Rescue,won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for theIndependentand other journals. He lives in south-west London.

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