Book: Paperback | 5.15 x 7.71in | 112 pages | ISBN 9780141180656 | 01 Jun 1998 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
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.