Here we get the story of Rufus Denby, an archaeologist who after the end of the war is on a small Mediterranean island for an archaeological dig, hoping to find out more about the temple they have recently uncovered.
So a lot of books slipped thru the cracks and I’ve been trying my best to go back and catch up on what I missed. Seven Summer Nights came out about a year ago, but I completely missed it due to the fact that November last year was a bit of a shit show and I was barely even sleepwalking thru everyday life in order to just function. I mean… if you’ve been in a perfect place for a perfect time, can you return to that perfection? Or will it be different, like two photographic exposures of the same view?” Rufus had retained a bright lucidity since their departure from Farley Cross, his ease and confidence growing with every mile they put behind them, but his damage was still done, incontrovertibly written into the scars on his brow. And Rufus and Archie’s seven summer nights have just begun…Īrchie frowned in concern. It’s summer on the South Downs, the air full of sunshine and enchantment. As he and Archie begin to unfold the archaeological mystery of Droyton, their growing friendship makes Rufus believe he might one day recapture his lost memories of the war, and find his way back from the edge of insanity to love. Rufus is a combat case, amnesiac and shellshocked.
He’s a lonely man, and Rufus’s arrival soon sparks off in him a lifetime of repressed desires. The Reverend Archie Thorne has tasted action too, as a motorcycle-riding army chaplain, and is struggling to readjust to the little world around him. It’s an ordinary task, but Droyton is in the hands of a most extraordinary vicar.
With nothing but his satchel and a mongrel dog he’s rescued from a bomb site, he sets out to investigate an ancient church in the sleepy village of Droyton Parva. It’s a refuge, and the only means left to him of scraping a living. He’s used to the most glamorous of excavations, but can’t turn down the offer of a job in rural Sussex.
When famous archaeologist Rufus Denby returns to London, his life and reputation are as devastated as the city around him. It’s 1946, and the dust of World War Two has just begun to settle.
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