![]() ![]() ![]() He is uninjured but the car is damaged and he sets off on foot through the woods and eventually reaches a village where he finds a boarding house. On a cold winter morning he drives south from Tarascon-sur-Ariège towards Vicdessos but he gets lost, and then caught in a blizzard drives off the road. Questioned by the proprietor Freddie tells how, five years earlier in 1928 at the age of 27 he had travelled by car to Ariège ostensibly to help recover from a bout of influenza, but also to try and shake off the grief of his brother George's death as a member of the Royal Sussex Regiment in the Battle of the Boar's Head. ![]() In 1933 Toulouse, Freddie Watson takes a letter written in medieval Occitan to an antiquarian bookseller for translation. The Winter Ghosts is a 2009 historical fiction novel by English author Kate Mosse based on The Cave, a novella she wrote earlier that year as part of the Quick Reads initiative. ![]()
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