Which book is this?

[chaliepud]

Is the lead character female?

[chesilbeach]

Yes

[Janet]

Is it The Girl with the Glass Feet by Ali Shaw? 

[chesilbeach]

That's the one! Well done, Janet, over to you.

[Janet]

Thanks - I really enjoyed that book. 

 

I think this'll go fairly quickly...

 

"The past not only changed, but changed continuously. What most afflicted him with the sense of nightmare was that he had never clearly understood why the huge imposture was undertaken. The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious."

[chaliepud]

A classic?

[Sara.]

It it from the 19 or early 20 century?

[Janet]

It was published after WWII  

[chaliepud]

Hmm.. Seems very vaguely familiar, is it a female author?

Edited December 16, 2013 by chaliepud

[Janet]

Nope! 

[Sara.]

Is it in any way influenced by WWII?

[Janet]

I would say so, yes.

[frankie]

When I read the quote, I started thinking about Replay by Ken Grimwood, but I know that's not it...

 

Is this non-fiction?

 

Edit: Nah, it doesn't read like non-fiction... Is the author American?

Edited December 18, 2013 by frankie

[Janet]

Not non-fiction. The author was British... but born, I'm pretty sure, in India.

[frankie]

That's definitely going to narrow it down... Ooooh. Hmm!

[Sara.]

Isn't that George Orwell? If it is, someone else guess because I' ve only read his Animal Farm. (:ashamed:) I'll have to correct that.

[Brian.]

Going down the Orwell route, 1984?

[Janet]

Correct, Brian - well done. Your go.

 

(And congrats, Sara, for getting the author).

[Brian.]

"Not so easy," he said.

"Yes," I said, "but that was a special case because it was a fortress rather than a mountain, anyway. The Austrians had been fortifying it for years." I meant tactically speaking in a war where there was some movement a succession of mountains were nothing to hold as a line because it was too easy to turn them. You should have possible mobility and a mountain is not very mobile. Also, people always over-shoot downhill. If the flank were turned, the best men would be left on the highest mountains. I did not believe in a war in mountains.

[Sara.]

Is it from the 20 century?

[chaliepud]

World War One or Two?

[Brian.]

Is it from the 20 century?

 

Yes

 

World War One or Two?

 

World War 1

[chaliepud]

Written at the time? 

[Brian.]

It was published between the wars.

[Vimes]

Fiction or non-fiction?