A Victorian Son

CLOETE, Stuart

Harpercollins

<p>Stuart Cloete has chosen the First World War, of which he is himself a survivor, as the setting for his latest novel. Jim Hilton, its hero, is a subaltern of nineteen when he goes out to Flanders for the first time in April 1916, and a veteran of twenty-one, twice wounded, married, gazetted Major, by the time his story ends. It is a story of courage and the waste of human life in the bloody carnage of the Ypres Salient and the Battle of the Somme that could have been written only by someone who was there and saw it, who was a participant in the struggle in which millions of men fought and died for narrow stretches of shattered ground and useless villages in an unending sea of mud.\nIt is also the story of the women who waited for those men - the mothers, wives and sweethearts - snatching desperately at moments of pleasure in the frenetic gaiety of wartime leaves in London, returning home to dread every ring of the front-door bell. Stuart Cloete shows relentlessly the pressures of war upon individuals and society as his young hero, like thousands of others, seeks to fulfill himself in love as well as in battle and to thread his way between the two ultimate expressions of virility - the talking and making of life</p>

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