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by A. Hamilton Gibbs

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298 pages, Hardcover

Published October 27, 2013

About the author

Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (9 March 1888 – 24 May 1964) was an English-American novelist. He was the brother of Cosmo Hamilton and Sir Philip Gibbs.

Born in London, Gibbs wrote 16 novels and two books of poetry. His novels include The Persistent Lovers (1915) (which was adapted into a 1922 film of the same name), Soundings (1925) (the best-selling book in the United States that year), and Chances (1930).

Gibbs became a United States citizen in 1931, and thereafter lived primarily in Lakeville, Massachusetts. He died in Boston in 1964, survived by his wife Jeanette (Philips), a writer and lawyer.

Reviews

[Dorcas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book I felt was truer to the author's soul, if you will. Less fiction and more heart. The author fought on the front lines in WW1 (so did the main character), one of his brothers was a playwright (so was the brother of the main character in this novel), the family life described here was so similar to descriptions mentioned in Philip Gibbs books (a brother of the author) that you have to wonder if it was drawn from real life. The hardworking but cold father who works his way up in the world to "be someone" but feels no one appreciates his sacrifice and ends up alone emotionally.

Here we have a family group whose three "children" took different paths during the war. The daughter becomes a nurse overseas, one son a soldier, the third child a conscientious objector who is promptly put to work in the quarries and is a Jonah to all who knew him- his girlfriend even giving him a white feather. The father quickly purchases factories, turns them into munitions and earns his KBE (knighthood) by profiteering on the war.

Needless to say when the war is over, family relations have changed. While the father has earned his knightly position by his war work, he really has no idea of what life was like in the thick of it. Dick, who comes back disillusioned and mentally troubled feels like no one back home "gets it". Madge, his sister and closest comrade, covers up her jadedness with bravado and irritating good humor. But Tom, who returns more dead than alive after his years in prison camp and is turned away from his father's house, is perhaps the true hero of the story because he has to start his life anew and take the full punishment for his beliefs.