An Uncertain Shore

David Walker is Emeritus Professor of French from a British University, an internationally recognized specialist on the literature and culture of France, and author of numerous critical books, including ’Outrage and Insight: Modern French Writers and the ＂fait divers＂’ and ’Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in Modern French Literature’. He writes in both French and English, and is well-known in France and beyond as a leading expert on the writings of Albert Camus and André Gide. His first work of fiction, ’Migrating Voids’, was inspired by the Fylde, where he grew up, on the north-west coast of England. It was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement as an ’Ambitious first novel ... meticulously crafted’. ’An Uncertain Shore’, though not in any sense a sequel, draws on the history and landscapes of the same region.