The Return of the Soldier (Virago modern classics)

The Return of the Soldier (Virago modern classics)

by Sadie Jones (Introduction), Rebecca West (Author)

Synopsis

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Virago
Published: 30 Jun 1980

ISBN 10: 0860681440
ISBN 13: 9780860681441

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'Rebecca West - highly intelligent, highly gifted, vital, original, combative, formidable and kind - was a great woman' VICTORIA GLENDINNING
Author Bio
Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, taking her pen name from an Ibsen play. A feminist and social reformer, she was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1959. Her only son, Anthony West, is the son of author H.G. Wells.