New Novel Inspired by Medic's Iraq War Ordeal ; Novelist Sisters Sadie and Melissa Jones Amuse and Inspire Each Other Equally. Ahead of Their Appearance at Durham Book Festival Tomorrow, Tamzin Lewis Talks to Sadie About Her Remarkable Second Novel.

The Journal › October 23, 2010

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FOR someone who laughs about being "the last person to write a book about the army", Sadie Jones has penned a compelling wartime novel. Small Wars is set in 1950s Cyprus, when the island was still a crown colony and the British army faced an ill-fated independence campaign to unite the island with Greece.

Dashing officer Hal is transferred to Cyprus where he struggles to come to terms with atrocities and his marriage to patriotic Clara is strained to breaking point.

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New Novel Inspired by Medic's Iraq War Ordeal ; Novelist Sisters Sadie and Melissa Jones Amuse and Inspire Each Other Equally. Ahead of Their Appearance at Durham Book Festival Tomorrow, Tamzin Lewis Talks to Sadie About Her Remarkable Second Novel.

I'm chatting to Sadie as she walks her "adorable little white dog" in a park near her west London home before an appearance with her sister at the Durham Book Festival.

And I've got her on a good day, as her third novel, set in Edwardian times, is "galloping along in the...

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