The End of Innocence

"I read "End of Innocence" yesterday. I couldn't put it down...it felt so real. I was moved to tears--three times....Loved the historical detail....I will be recommending it to everyone. This was wonderful!" - Catherine Coyne, Director, Mansfield Public Library, MA

"I liked this book very much. There is so much to be said about WWI, but this addressed it in a personal literary fashion. And, it was so wise and hopeful." - Nancy Nevin, Sunriver Books & Music, OR

"I generally don't read a lot of literary fiction, but I've got to say, this is a winner. I read it in one sitting. Allegra Jordan is a gifted writer." - Elizabeth Kanouse, Director, Denville Public Library (NJ)

"This is a wonderful story set around prestigious Harvard College prior to America's intervention into the Great War and follows a cast of formidable characters into the early 1930s...More than Harvard's story, it is one of loyalty, love, trust, and betrayal, woven around the war that tore families apart, but eventually drew strength out of long-buried loneliness." - Carol Hicks, Bookshelf Stores Inc. (CA)

"Downton Abbey has found a brilliant successor in this spellbinding tale of love, death, and war. The finest war fiction to be published in many years." - Jonathan W. Jordan, bestselling author of Brothers, Rivals, Victors

"Allegra Jordan's The "End of Innocence" is a moving ode to a lost generation. With lyrical prose and rich historical detail, Jordan weaves a tale in which love overcomes fear, hope overcomes despair, and the indelible human spirit rises up to embrace renewal and reconciliation in the face of loss and destruction." - Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor's Wife

"A fresh imagination about divided loyalties, justice, and love." - Debora Spar, Barnard College President

"A delicious, well-crafted historical novel." - Daniel Klein, NYT best-selling co-author of PLATO and A PLATYPUS WALKS INTO A BAR

"An exquisitely beautiful novel." - William Ferris, UNC-Chapel Hill professor and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities

"In this carefully crafted novel, Allegra Jordan shows that the power of writing itself, the stored and accumulating power of poetry...can be released into our lives, take us out of entrenched positions, and set us free." - Malcolm Guite, Cambridge University chaplain, and author of FAITH, HOPE, AND POETRY