When Captain Chris Baldry, a World War I soldier, is sent home with a severe case of shellshock amnesia, he is a stranger to his wife, Kitty, and his adoring cousin, Jenny. Recoiling from the horrors of war and disillusioned with years of superficial married life, his mind has regressed fifteen years, where his heart may take refuge once again in the magic circle of his youth and of his first love, Margaret Allington. In this lyrical and poignant story of a wounded man and the three concerned women who seek to heal him, Rebecca West explores the complexity of the mind and its subtle strategies for coping with life's painful realities. Only when Chris has the courage to face one pivotal moment of truth in his married life will he be able to awaken from his boyish fantasy and become, indeed, "every inch a soldier."
Book source ~ Purchased at Chirp
Rebecca West - Author
Wanda McCaddon - Narrator
4 September 2008 - Audio
1918 - first published
Classics
2 hrs 58 mins
My Rating ~ 1 bite
I finished this book in Sept of 2024, but never got around to reviewing it. That’s just the way my life has been the last few years.
Anyway, I seem to be in the minority here as I didn’t like this book at all. While I 100% believe in Chris’s shellshock, the story itself is just silly. Thankfully it’s told from his cousin Jenny’s POV. If it were told from his wife’s I’d never have been able to finish it. What a twat.
No comments:
Post a Comment