A Test to Destruction

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The eighth volume of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, A Test to Destruction begins during the final year of Great War. After the harsh winter of 1917, everyone is almost at the end of their endurance. Hetty, temporarily relieved to have Phillip safely home, hopes desperately that her son will not be posted to France again. Phillip, however, is determined to go back, and adds his name to a list of those available for service. Returning to the Front, he is injured and sent on convalescent leave in the West Country, where he remains as the war comes to an end. Here begins Phillip's post-war civilian life, in this wonderfully evocative fifteen-volume series, currently being reissued in its entirety by Faber Finds.

Author Bio

Henry Williamson (1895-1977) was a prolific writer best-known for Tarka the Otter, which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. He wrote much of else of quality including The Wet Flanders Plain, The Flax of Dream tetralogy and the fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, all of which are being reissued in Faber Finds. famously said of him, 'He stands at the end of the line of Blake, Shelley and Jefferies: he is last classic and the last romantic'.