In this month's book club, John Mullan talks to the American writer Charles Frazier about his best-selling first novel Cold Mountain, which won the prestigious National Book award in the US in 1997, and was made into an Oscar winning film by Anthony Minghella.
It is the story of a deserter from the confederate side in the American civil war and charts his tortuous journey back home to the mountains of North Carolina.
Frazier explains the true family story on which it is based and describes how he researched a novel that is rich in detail from the 1860s, from
wildlife to food and farming.
