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Encouraged by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, JRR Tolkien, during World Battle I, Simon Tolkien offers a correctly rendered novel rife with category tension, period information, and stirring action, which range from the sharply divided modern culture of northern Great britain to the trenches of the Somme. Adam Raine is a young man cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in turn-of-the-century London involves an abrupt and tragic end when his mom is killed in a staff' protest march. His father, Daniel, is barely able to deal with the loss. But a job offer in the coal mining town of Scarsdale presents one previous chance, so father and kid head north. The relocation is hard on Adam: the neighborhood boys establish difficult to befriend, and he never quite fits in. Meanwhile tensions between the miners and their company, Sir John Scarsdale, escalate, and finally explode with bad consequences. In the aftermath, Adam's destiny shifts once more, and he confirms himself drawn into the opulent Scarsdale family home where he makes an opponent of Sir John's kid, Brice, who content Adam to a succession of petty cruelties for daring to step above his place. However, Adam confirms consolation in the company of Miriam, the neighborhood parson's beautiful child with whom he falls in love. When they become involved and Adam wins a scholarship or grant to Oxford, he begins to feel that his life is finally coming together - until the outbreak of conflict threatens to tear everything apart. In the slums of London to the riches of Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of any Yorkshire coal mine to the open terrors of the trenches in France; Adam's voyage from young man to man is set against the setting of a modern culture violently entering the modern world.
