Evermore

"He sent the last of his buff-coloured postcards ('50 yds from the Germans. Posted from Trench') four days before he died. Every year, his sister visits Sammy's grave at Cabaret Rouge, and the graves of thousands of other soldiers killed in the battlefields of Northern France. In this powerful elegy, Julian Barnes evokes the youthful lives wasted by the ravages of the First World War, and the suffering of those left behind" --