The illuminations

By Andrew O'Hagan

Subjects: Women photographers, Older women, Grandmothers, Families, Survival, Emotions, New York Times reviewed, Secrets, Fiction, Soldiers, Artists, Family life

Description: A British army captain whose artistic pioneer grandmother lived an illusory life to cope with hardships begins transforming his own sense of reality in the aftermath of a mission gone wrong before confronting a mystery from his family's past.