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The world it imagines is one in which women are in every way the inferior sex, unable to match men’s capacity to think, to feel, or to act. The forthcoming novel, Snow Country, tells the story of Lena, a girl born with nothing but her own strength of character to an alcoholic mother in a small town in southern Austria in 1906 and Anton, the restless son of a bourgeois family who sets out to make his fortune in pre-First World War Vienna.

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They provide people with the potential of moving on and being able to live and love in a Europe and Austria that seem determined to be at war, damaging, killing and destroying the lives of countless millions in the run up to WW2.Mark asked, ‘How easy or difficult is it to get the balance right between the history, the backdrop and the humans and what's going on in their brains? It’s this accumulation of perfect details, a verbal pointillism if you will, which brings the lives and loves of his characters to life. Lena’s friend Rudolf finds Lena’s lack of elementary education “more intriguing than off-putting”, refers to her habitually as “Little Girl” and takes her out every Friday to teach her about politics. The clinic is now being run by Thomas’s psychotherapist daughter Martha, and counts among its employees a local girl named Lena Fontana, whom Anton had paid for sex in 1927.

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The book tells the story of Lena, a girl born to an alcoholic mother in a small town in southern Austria in 1906, Anton, the restless son of a bourgeois family who sets out to make his fortune in pre-First World War Vienna, and the idealistic young lawyer Rudolf Plischke, who wants to change the world. Snow Country, tells the story of Lena, a girl born with nothing but her own strength of character to an alcoholic mother in a small town in southern Austria in 1906 and Anton, the restless son of a bourgeois family who sets out to make his fortune in pre-First World War Vienna. The horrors of what he sees, the huge losses that include friends, leaves him unsurprisingly with PTSD, finding it hard to come to terms with the loss of Delphine, exacerbated by not knowing whether she is alive or dead. He attended Wellington College and studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, although he didn’t enjoy attending either institution. You have to hand it to the Scottish government: the deletion of WhatsApp messages is good preemptive news management, whether accidental, by default or deliberate.With SNOW COUNTRY, Sebastian Faulks reaffirms his place as one of the greatest novelists of our times. And I’m glad I stuck with it because as the tale entered it’s final third I suddenly found myself interested in the plight of a number of the players, the same people who had failed to arouse my interest to this point.