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John Hilliard, a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave back in England blind to the horrors of the trenches, finds his battalion tragically altered. His commanding officer finds escape in alcohol, there is a new adjutant and even Hilliard's batman has been killed.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .'Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle. As the pair approach the front line, to the proximity of death and destruction, their strange friendship deepens. But each knows that soon they will be separated . . .'A remarkable feat of imaginative and descriptive writing' The Times'The feeling of men under appalling stress at a particular moment in history is communicated with almost uncanny power' Sunday Times'Truly Astonishing' Daily Telegraph

  • Play

    John Hilliard a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave back in England blind to the horrors of the trenches finds his battalion tragically altered. His commanding officer finds escape in alcohol there is a new adjutant and even Hilliard's batman has been killed. But there is David Barton. As yet untouched and unsullied by war radiating charm and common sense forever writing long letters to his family. Theirs is a strange meeting and a strange relationship: the coming together of opposites in the summer lull before the inevitable storm. 'The feeling of men under appalling stress at a particular moment in history is communicated with almost uncanny power' - "Sunday Times".

  • BookDepository

    Strange Meeting : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140036954 : 0140036954 : 29 Apr 1976 : Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle.

  • Blackwell

    Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton...

  • 0140036954
  • 9780140036954
  • Susan Hill
  • 3 June 2010
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
  • Re-issue
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