There's no home
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alexander Baron ; afterword by John L. Williams
Contributors: Williams, John, 1961-
Publisher: Sort Of Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780956308603
Subjects: Soldiers; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945
Description: It's 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombedout city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain there. Yearning for some semblance of home life, the men begin to fill the roles left by absent husbands and fathers. Unlikely relationships form; tender, exploitative even cruel, and each doomed to end when the battalion moves on. Many lives interleave in There's No Home but at its heart is the love that develops between Graziella, a bright young mother, and Sergeant Craddock, whose.