Written in 1917, the novel follows a young woman who has slipped away from her family into war work in London, keeping up a correspondence with those at the front and escaping in her mind to a secret refuge of her own. Hope, absurdity and dread mix in a voice that trusts only the unaccountable.
An odd, luminous home-front novel from the First World War, for lovers of whimsical, melancholy fiction. Download the free EPUB.