Written by an award-winning screenwriter whose novels have earned extraordinary critical praise, Motherland is a compelling, page-turning narrative brimming with stunning war scenes, pageantry, politics, and questions about faith and art, as well as quiet, intimate moments of passion, doubt, and longing. Above all, it is a great love story about three people struggling to find happiness and meaning . William Nicholson's plays include Shadowlands and Life Story, both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award of their year. He is married with three children and lives in Sussex. Start reading Motherland on your Kindle in under a minute/5(75). William Nicholson is a screenwriter, playwright, television writer, and novelist. In addition to his Academy Award–nominated screenplays for Shadowlands and Gladiator, he is the author of Motherland; several young adult and fantasy novels; and a sequence of contemporary adult novels set in England. He lives in Sussex, bltadwin.rued on: J.
William Nicholson's "Motherland" starts and concludes in the present day with Alice Dickinson travelling to France to meet her recently discovered grandmother, but the huge majority of the book concerns a love triangle between Kitty, Alice's great grandmother, an army driver in Sussex in , Ed, a Royal Marine commando and his school friend. William Nicholson was born in , and grew up in Sussex and Gloucestershire. He was educated at Downside School and Christ's College, Cambridge, and then joined BBC Television, where he worked as a documentary film maker. There his ambition to write, directed first into novels, was channeled into television drama. I t comes as no surprise, reading the opening paragraphs of Motherland, to discover that William Nicholson is an award-winning screenwriter, with movies such as Shadowlands and Gladiator to his.
William Nicholson is a screenwriter, playwright, television writer, and novelist. In addition to his Academy Award–nominated screenplays for Shadowlands and Gladiator, he is the author of Motherland; several young adult and fantasy novels; and a sequence of contemporary adult novels set in England. He lives in Sussex, England. William Nicholson's plays include Shadowlands and Life Story, both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award of their year. He is married with three children and lives in Sussex. Start reading Motherland on your Kindle in under a minute. Nicholson is a deceptively simple stylist but Motherland is a profound and moving novel; a tender and compassionate meditation on love and God and duty and how to be good. "How little we are.
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