Giants' Bread

Book II: Nell carries Giants' Bread from childhood memory into the restless intensity of young adulthood. Vernon Deyre has moved beyond the protected world of Abbots Puissants and into a wider society of artists, friends, expectations, and romantic...

Book III: Jane turns Giants' Bread toward a more worldly and complicated emotional landscape. The innocence of childhood and the first urgency of youthful love have passed. Vernon Deyre now moves among people who know the value of art, reputation,...

Book IV: War places the private dramas of Giants' Bread against the devastating machinery of history. The personal conflicts that have shaped Vernon Deyre, Sebastian Levinne, Nell, and Jane are now overtaken by a world in crisis. Letters, leave,...

Book V: George Green brings Giants' Bread to its final and most revealing movement. What began with the public mystery of a new masterpiece now returns to the hidden lives that made such a work possible. In this closing volume, Christie gathers...