The Marcus family and their relations are Londoners of German and Jewish descent, and when war comes in 1914 their young people find themselves belonging wholly to neither side. Love affairs, enlistments, parties and family quarrels play out against suspicion and patriotic fervour, as a new generation tries to decide what love of one’s land can mean.
A sharp, humane novel of identity and wartime England from 1919, by the author of The Matriarch. Download the free EPUB.