A devoted clergyman faces a crisis of faith as the horrors of World War I and his daughter's scandalous love affair tear his world apart. The story captures the agonizing transition from Victorian certainty to the disillusioned reality of the modern era. As the foundations of his life crumble, he must find a way to reconcile his religious ideals with a world that seems to have abandoned them. Galsworthy's prose is both sensitive and profound, offering a moving portrait of spiritual and familial loss. It is a landmark novel of the wartime home front.
