A melancholy father weeps in front of the radio while his romantically disappointed wife reads novels in the railway station. 15-year-old Madge sneaks off to meet a German POW and Alan, the adolescent son, suffers the family he can not alter nor ignore - until it has been destroyed.

A melancholy father weeps in front of the radio while his romantically disappointed wife reads novels in the railway station.

Bainbridge, War, Complete, Unabridged