description: Five years change a man, and when they have been spent in the bush fighting Boers, the changes are profound. So when Jamie Parson comes home with captain's pips and a Victoria Cross, he is no longer the boy he was. But not to his parents and Mary, his sweetheart...they expect him to fit in.Jamie can't, and shortly breaks off with Mary. Happiness remains a shadow, illusive as the Boers, and Jamie finds the moral struggle as relentless as the military.
language: English
title: The Hero
titlecomplete: The Hero
genres: Classics, British Literature, South Africa, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 343
publisher: Classic Books