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1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it hasleft a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914.Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on theWestern Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse.Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pallover peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knewpersuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother,John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit thedarkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connectionsbetween Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitterregimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deathsare exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, itdawns on him that nothing is as it seems, and that even thoseclosest to him have their secrets ...

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