The Black Earth: A poignant story of wartime love and loss

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1922. When the Turkish Army occupies Smyrna, Zoe Haggitiris escapes with her family, only to lose everything. Alone in a sea of desperate strangers, her life is touched, for a moment, by a young English boy, Tom Collyer, also lost, before the compassion of a stranger leads her into a new life. Years later when war breaks out, Tom finds himself in Greece and in the chaos of the British retreat, fate will lead him back to Zoe. But he will discover that the war will not end so easily for either of them.

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`[A] stunning novel ... With unshowy, but beautiful prose, Kazan makes us believe entirely in his two protagonists. ... This is the novel I will be pressing on family and friends over the summer.' - The Times

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Philip Kazan was born in London and grew up on Dartmoor. He is the author of two previous novels set in fifteenth-century Florence and the Petroc series following a thirteenth-century adventurer.