Blasted Things

On finishing a Lesley Glaister novel, I’m always surprised that she’s not usually spoken of in the same breath as some of our foremost British novelists. Not only can she plot a gripping story but her choice of language is always so apt, her characters so real and her narrative so memorable. In ‘Blas......more

A delightfully well-plotted and beautifully written novel! Clementina and Vince have very little in common except wounds from their time serving as nurse and soldier on the front World War I, some wounds visible and some not. The story follows their chance meeting after the war (in 1920) and the dram......more

Read all of Lesley Glaisters novel, loved them all, everyone so different. This one is about the effects of WWI on different people. The horrors of hospitals on the front line, amputations, brief romances, death and despair. How can people make a life after their experiences. Two such people are Cleme......more

Blasted Things is another fabulous Lesley Glaister novel. She just keeps getting better and better - and every book is different and differently wonderful. Others have outlined the story of Clem and Dennis, Powell and Vincent, not to mention Harri and Gwen and all the other beautifully delineated cha......more

War imprints and indelible marks– a fascinating new novel British author, poet, playwright Lesley Glaister is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews as well as a writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has pub......more