Martin Overshaw, a disappointed young schoolmaster, waits in a shabby hotel near Les Halles for a letter that will decide his future in Paris. What follows is a year of drifting, friendship and self-discovery that carries him through the French provinces and as far as Egypt, until the outbreak of war in 1914 tests what he has become.
Warm, humorous storytelling from the author of The Beloved Vagabond, written in the war years it reaches. Download the free EPUB.