Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England after being injured in World War II, and befriends Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the two begin a romance that is eventually threatened by a mentor from Laurie's school days.
year: 2003
call number/section: 1000
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, veterans, fiction, conscientious objectors, veterans' hospitals, gay men, england, fiction