R E K. (bigstone) - , reviewed on 1/4/2013 + 1438 more book reviews

Bess Crawford, a nurse who fell in love with a dying soldier, returns to England after the hospital ship on which she is sailing sinks. Recuperating from a broken arm, she decides that she must pass a message the soldier gave her to deliver to his brother. What she finds is a tangled web of family issues that that are confusing. The truth is something she wished that she never knew. The family despises the eldest son who is believed to be mad and has been institutionalized. At the age of fourteen, he is believed to have savagely killed a servant. When he escapes, he manages to evade capture, threatens Bess and engages her help. He recovers his memory with Bess's help and the truth was warped by the adults around the fourteen-year-old. Fine read indeed.

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