Author(s): Martin Booth

Fiction

England, 1914. Alec Marquand, starting out on a career in archaeology, visits a remote Scottish island. Here he encounters a mysterious and beautiful young woman who intrigues and bewitches him. But Fate intervenes with the outbreak of the First World War. Alec knows enough about human history to believe that war is folly, but despite his conscientious-objector status, he is pressed into the King