Worthless men
By: Andrew Cowan
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781471362194
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Fiction; History; Romans, nouvelles; Histoire
Description: It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in from the country, the cattle are being driven through the streets and that evening a trainload of wounded soldiers is due to arrive. At the local mansion, its new hospital tents to the ready, waits Montague Beckwith, himself a psychological casualty of the war. In the town's poorest quarter, Winnie Barley prays that Walter, her missing son, will be on the train (but that her violent husband is not). In the pharmacy, Gertie Dobson dreams of romance while her father keeps unsuitable men at bay. And everywhere is Walter, a ghostly presence who watches as the girl he loved from a distance is drawn into Montague's orbit.
Notes: Originally published: London: Sceptre.