The Return of the Soldier

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Synopsis

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Is The Return of the Soldier appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.