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Review

Few events in his early years had prepared Laurie Odell for that day in the Veteran's Hospital when he first met Andrew Raynes. Laurie, who was recovering from wounds sustained at Dunkirk, had seen a bit of life, but the moment he met Andrew was unique for him - it was a moment that provided clarity and logic for the many things that he vaguely knew about himself but had never fully understood. With Andrew everything became right - love entered Laurie's life and with it finally, a sense of self. But this discovery began Laurie's journey between two communities - that of the soldier and that of the gay man - and the delicate task of navigating the precarious waters that flow between them.

Life as both a soldier and a gay man during World War II-a classic of gay fiction. “Renault is one of the major novelists of our time. Her insights are phenomenal...her rendering of truth as she sees it forthright, courageous, informative, and stirring” (New York Herald Tribune).