A Compass Error

'A powerful and merciless book – a classic coming-of-age novel' -- Hilary Mantel 'Wide windows, not yet shuttered at that hour, opened from the circular white-washed room on slopes of olives and the distant shimmering bay. Flavia turned seventeen, alone, entirely alone for the first time in her life . . .' As the Second World War looms, Flavia is living in a small village in the South of France....