WAITING FOR SUNRISE

William Boyd - Bloomsbury  
NZ rrp $36.99 - NZ publication - March 2012

From the best-selling author of Any Human Heart and Restless comes a thrilling, plot twisting new novel set in Europe during the First World War.

Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief walks through the city to his first appointment with psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is drawn to a woman with strange hazel eyes and an unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull.
London, 1914. War is imminent, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander in the most damaging way. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence – a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain’s safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life.

About the author
William Boyd (right) is the author of ten novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, and most recently, the bestselling Ordinary Thunderstorms.