Medium Paperback, Good Condition, 1998, 438 pages, ISBN 0 340 68059 8

Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier

A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began.

As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land he once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.

“A poetic account of hardship, violence and longing… From a simple framework of alternating narratives, Frazier builds up a richly detailed portrayal of a vanished world… The novel is above all a sustained flight of the imagination.” – Daily Telegraph