I was happy when I was a child, and I married the wrong person, and some one I loved dearly was killed in the war. This is why quoting the closing lines of the book, here, does not ‘give the plot away’: And this is all that has happened. Unlike Wilfred and Eileen, which focuses on the years 1913–15 and does not show the aftermath, The Happy Treeis focused on what happens when the war has ended. But the quality of the writing is extraordinary and it tells the reader as much about the after-shock of the war as, say, Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. In one sense it does not sound very entertaining. ![]() This 1926 novel begins with the death of a young man in the First World War, flashes back to his happy childhood shared with the young woman who is the narrator, and then describes how the war – inevitably – took them unawares, destroyed their happiness and has left her, the young woman, emotionally maimed.
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