'Harriet's Eternal Tears' is an emotionally uplifting drama of a mother's love and loss during the First World War, when her two sons went out to face the uncertainties of conflict. Harriet is happy in her close-knit community until the horrors of war descend on her. Her two sons, David and Emrys, go off to fight despite Emrys only being sixteen. He soon discovers that joining the cyclist battalion
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A historical novel

Product details

ISBN
9781915494702
Published
2023-08-29
Publisher
The Conrad Press; The Conrad Press
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
28 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
384

Author

Biographical note

David John was named after his great uncle, who died at Mametz Wood, on the Somme. He worked as a GP, in North Somerset, for thirty-five years, and is now a tour guide at the M Shed Museum, in Bristol. 'Harriet's Eternal Tears' is David's first novel and is based on an unforgettable conversation with his grandfather. David is currently writing a sequel, which starts in Bolshevik Russia in 1920.