The Sparsholt Affair Kia Abdullah loss and obsession where everyone

loss and obsession where everyone - including himself - has something to hide

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The Sparsholt Affair Kia Abdullah loss and obsession where everyoneIn October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one