The Return Of The Soldier (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

West, Rebecca

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9780860681441: The Return Of The Soldier (Virago Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0860681440 ISBN 13: 9780860681441

Publisher: Virago, 1980

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The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice.

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'Rebecca West - highly intelligent, highly gifted, vital, original, combative, formidable and kind - was a great woman' VICTORIA GLENDINNING

Book Description:

This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him.

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