90 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1998 by Penguin Books.
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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.
Subjects
- World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Country homes -- Fiction
- War neuroses -- Fiction
- Soldiers -- Fiction
- Amnesia -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction