"​In Joe Mathieson, Diana Jones has created as poignant and engaging a character as you’ll ever meet in a novel, this naïve young Scot on his heartbreaking mission, cheeky, headstrong, conflicted and filled with longing in a wounded world. Beautifully written, deeply affecting."
​—Tricia Dower, author of Silent Girl, Stony River and Becoming Lin.

​It’s 1915. WW1 has been raging for six months. Twenty-three year old miner Joe Mathieson lives in a small community on the east coast of Fife, Scotland. His life is joyless, his future bleak. Unlike his older brother, Fred, who enlisted in the army at the beginning of the war, Joe is apathetic to the world around him and has no interest in being part of the stream of young men joining the armed forces...
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​​Diana Elizabeth Jones has previously published and won awards for short fiction and this is her first novel. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and incubating a second novel.

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