Coming Home

A powerful novel of a teenager who fights in the First World War, hoping to redeem himself after the death of his brother.

 


Feeling responsible for the accidental death of his recently conscripted brother, fifteen-year-old Thomas Elkin takes on the identity of his dead siblingâ€"and enters into the fray of the conflict. His burning ambition is to die a glorious death in his brother's name.


 


Believing that in fully submitting to the reality of war he is atoning for his sins, he faces all the attendant horrors with a steel will and a poignant resignation. As the Great War rages, both personal conflict and global conflict raise questions of morality and mortality, guilt and faithâ€"as this moving novel touches upon the existential crises faced on the battlefield by the men who fought.