Debbie (United Kingdom) (2007/11/30): This is my favourite book of all time. In its few pages it covers many aspects of humankind - recovery after war, loss of love from a failed marriage and early twentieth century's attitude to homosexuality (to name a few).
The story opens with two soldiers returning from WW1 to work on a historical wall-painting and a lost grave. As the painting is uncovered so we learn more of their pasts and an English rural life which was to disappear over the next few years.
