The Return of the Soldier

The Return of the Soldier is the debut novel from English novelist Rebecca West.

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him: his wife, Kitty, his devoted cousin Jenny, and Margaret Allington, his first love.

But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all.

The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him.

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