Title: Sentiment, stock characters, and syrup
Review: Fortunately for curious readers, this book is in the public domain. Sample it before buying. With a predictable plot and a cast of stock characters, The Return of the Soldier best resembles a Hallmark movie. A damaged man, a woman's love, the constraints and snobbery of class, the power of fatherhood and memory...all attractive themes but never getting beyond the depth or stuff of light historical fiction for the sentimental. I would recommend it as part of a larger study on fictional responses to post-WWI but not on its own merits.
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