num_pages: 112
description: Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: The Return of the Soldier
titlecomplete: The Return of the Soldier
characters: Kitty Baldry, Captain Chris Baldry, Jenny
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, World War I, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 7758
awards: awardedAt: -694281600000
name: Women's Press Club Award
category: Journalism
publisher: Penguin Classics