Taking its title and epigraph from Wordsworth’s poem on the ideal soldier, the novel follows a spirited boy brought up by his Aunt Maggie, chafing at being an idler, as he grows into manhood through love, rivalry and an unexpected inheritance of duty. Hutchinson asks what courage and generosity look like in an ordinary life.
An earnest, popular Edwardian novel by the future author of If Winter Comes. Download the free EPUB.