num_pages: 290
description: In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself  at once both shadowed and luminous  Warlight is a vivid thrilling novel of violence and love intrigue and desire. It is 1945 and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister Rachel are apparently abandoned by their parents left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared history all of whom seem determined now to protect and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didnt know or understand in that time and it is this journey  through reality recollection and imagination  that is told in this magnificent novel.
language: English
title: Warlight
publisher: Jonathan Cape