Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician and a man of rigid old-fashioned honour, rides a train to Rye with his friend Macmaster in the summer before the First World War. Married to the beautiful and vengeful Sylvia, he meets Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette, and the novel follows the three into the war years as English society begins to come apart.
The first novel of the Parade’s End tetralogy, one of the great modernist works about the Great War. Download the free EPUB.