Book description
The First World War, everyone said in 1914, would be over by Christmas,
and Stephen Conway rushes to enlist. Leaving behind a new wife and a
baby on the way, he soon finds himself in the trenches of Gallipoli.
Four horrific years later, Stephen is the only survivor of his platoon.
Shell-shocked and disillusioned, and during the the heat of battle on
the blood-stained fields of France, he mysteriously disappears. More
than eighty years later, Stephen's grandson Patrick finds a diary that
leads him to Britain and France on a journey to discover what really
happened. It is a journey during which he unexpectedly finds love, and
the truth about his grandfather's fate that is even stranger and more
shocking than he imagined. Based on true events, this is an
unforgettable novel of courage and survival from a master storyteller.
