The First World War, everyone said in 1914, would be over by Christmas, and Stephen Conway rushes to enlist. Leaving behind a new wife and am baby on the way, he soon finds himself in the trenches of Gallipoli. Four horrific years later, Stepehen is the only survivor of his platoon. Shell-shocked and disillusioned, and during the heat of battle on the blood-stained fields of France, he mysteriously disappears.
More than eighty years later, Stephen’s grandson Patrick finds a diary that leads him to Britain and France on a journey to discover what really happened. It is a journey during which he unexpectedly finds love, and the truth about his grandfather’s fate that is even stranger and more shocking than he imagined.
