In an Indian frontier bungalow a young officer reads in the newspaper that he has been killed, and pauses over the letter he was writing to Anna, the fiancée he cannot afford to marry. The choice he makes in that moment sets off consequences that follow him home to suburban England and reach, nineteen years later, into the life of a younger man.
An early novel by the author of The Sowers, a study of ambition and its cost told with Merriman’s brisk dramatic sense. Download the free EPUB.