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Whitbread Literary Award-winning novelist Jennifer Johnston's report of two young Irish men, whose defiant companionship spans course and, later, list at the starting point of World Conflict I. Born to an aristocratic family on an estate beyond Dublin, Alexander Moore feels the constraints of his position most acutely in his companionship with Jerry Crowe, a Catholic laborer around. Jerry is mostly of the bright spots in Alec's otherwise troubled life. The guys relationship over their love of swimming and horses, despite the admonitions of Alec's frosty and overbearing mother, who scolds her boy for venturing beyond his course. When the fantastic War commences, he seizes the possibility to avoid his overbearing mother and taciturn dad, and enlists in the British isles army. Jerry, too, enlists - not out of devotion to Britain, but to prepare himself for the Republican cause. Stationed in Flanders, the teenagers are reunited and discover that, while encamped in the trenches, their commonalities are what help them endure. Now a lieutenant and an officer, Alec and Jerry again find their companionship under assault, this time from the rigid Major Glendinning, whose unyielding adherence to list leads both men toward a harrowing impasse that will change their lives permanently.
