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Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023

 

It was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him.

 

In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always has been.

When Gaunt's mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, he signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings. But Ellwood and their classmates soon follow him into the horrors of trenches. Though Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, their friends are dying in front of them, and at any moment they could be next. (Verlagstext)

 

England 1914. Für die Schüler Henry Gaunt und Sidney Ellwood ist der Krieg weit weg und besteht nur aus Nachrichten über gefallene Helden. Zudem müssen sie sich über ihre Gefühle füreinander klar werden. Als sie sich freiwillig melden, ändert sich ihr Leben - und ihre Beziehung - grundlegend.