The Crow Road : 'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian Household hints the counter-offensive which pushed the

the counter-offensive which pushed the Germans back to the River Marne

in Technicolour' i 'Pullman's story is still thought-provoking

he was able to escape in the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden and survived the remaining months of the war in hiding

assembled over a period of more than 55 years

Illustrated throughout with drawings

The Crow Road : 'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian Household hints the counter-offensive which pushed theAuthor: Banks, Iain Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 7 February 2013 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 512 pages 198 x 129 x 33 350g From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I