The Return of the Soldier (Virago modern classics)
Registered by bettybax on 4/27/2009
1 journaler for this copy...
SYNOPSIS:
"The soldier returns from the front to 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 shellshocked 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 chice - 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..."
Bought from a charity shop for Camberwell Chelsea and Wimbledon Art College Bookcrossing, but kept for reading.
I am glad I did so because I loved it. I am particularly intrigued by the setting of Monkey Island. It is not that far from where I live so I will enjoy investigating it.
I am inspired to revisit the only other Rebecca West that I have on my bookshelf - "The Fountain Overflows".
"The soldier returns from the front to 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 shellshocked 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 chice - 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..."
Bought from a charity shop for Camberwell Chelsea and Wimbledon Art College Bookcrossing, but kept for reading.
I am glad I did so because I loved it. I am particularly intrigued by the setting of Monkey Island. It is not that far from where I live so I will enjoy investigating it.
I am inspired to revisit the only other Rebecca West that I have on my bookshelf - "The Fountain Overflows".