From the first paragraph: ‘The glacial wind pouring for so many nights and days past the manor-house of Wildernesse to the plains and sandhills of the shallow coast had polished the stars to a glitter, and deserted a land silent and blank with snow.‘
‘Willie Maddison fought in the First World War. ..Now he returns to Devon, to try to express in writing, insights that have taken shape from his boyhood and wartime experience.‘(Faber)
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