The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of World War II.Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper – each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. His extraordinary knowledge and morphine-induced memories – of the North African desert, of explorers and tribes, of history and cartography; and also of forbidden love, suffering and betrayal – illuminate the story and leave all the characters for ever changed.

'The best piece of fiction I've read in years.' -- The Independent on Sunday
'One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time.' -- Guardian

Jennifer Ehle is an award-winning stage and screen actress. She has received critical acclaim and a Best Performance Tony Award for the debut of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, and won a second Tony Award in 2006 for her portrayal of three characters in Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia. In film, her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice earned her a BAFTA award. Most recently, Jennifer played the wife of King George VI’s speech therapist, Lionel Logue, in the film The King’s Speech.

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