Written during WWI by Rebecca West when the author was a 24-year-old single mother living out in the remote countryside, THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER is a riveting exploration of war from a civilian’s point of view. The novel centers around the relationships between a shell-shocked soldier and three important women in his life his wife, his favorite cousin, and the peasant woman he was romantically attached to when he was a young man. Will these three women, all of whom adore him, let him languish in a dreamy past, out of touch with reality and destined to live an aimless life? Or will they cure him of his amnesia and send him back to the front?