When I Come Home Again

BOOK DESCRIPTION

They need him to remember. He wants to forget. In the last week of the First World War, a uniformed soldier is arrested in Durham Cathedral. When questioned, it becomes clear he has no memory of who he is or how he came to be there.

The soldier is given the name Adam and transferred to a rehabilitation home. His doctor, James, is determined to recover who this man once was. But Adam doesn’t want to remember – unwilling to relive the trauma of war, he has locked his memory away, seemingly for good.

As those around him search for answers, the true cost of the war on those who returned, and those who waited for them, comes vividly into focus. Based on true events, this is a deeply moving and powerful story of a nation’s outpouring of grief and the search for hope in the aftermath of unimaginable loss.