WINNER OF WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDA TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT OF THE YEARIf you havent read it youre missing out BONNIE GARMUS BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LESSONS IN CHEMISTRYA devastating love story between two young men on the Western Front MAGGIE OFARRELL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAMNET In 1914 war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. Theyre too young to enlist and anyway Gaunt is fighting his own private battle an allconsuming infatuation with the dreamy poetic Ellwood not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him always has been.When Gaunts mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from antiGerman attacks he signs up immediately relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him into the horrors of the trenches.