num_pages: 320
description: The Second World War is over a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient they find themselves in the company of army and air force officers a car salesman a young university graduate a mysterious German woman a member of the aristocracy and an American merchant seaman. They discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach and only by inciting wholesale rebellion can freedom be snatched.
language: English
title: The Dark Circle
publisher: Virago