Hither, Page

Hither, Page (2019) Cat Sebastian (Page & Sommers #1)

Set in England in 1946

You can’t hold it against him. He had a bad war.

He ought to have developed a callus over whatever part of his heart was meant for mourning, but instead, it was like a wound that never quite healed.

“No, I assure you that I’m farther gone than most. And I wasn’t even a soldier. All I did was, as you said, stitch people up. What right do I have to—”

“No.” Page laid a hand on his shoulder. “What you’re not going to do is talk about shell shock or combat fatigue or brain fuckery as if it’s a special treat that you haven’t earned.”

He sat in the rearmost pew and let his gaze drift to the window of the three hares. His uncle had argued that it was a symbol of the holy trinity, but also a representation of past, present, and future, all tangled together, infinitely cyclical, and in the end, indistinguishable from one another… if the three hares represented past, present, and future, that meant the future was always touched by the past.

Characters: Mildred Hoggett, Dr James Sommers, Leo Page, Sir Alexander Templeton, Colonel Bertram Armstrong, Edward Norris, Mary Griffiths, Polly Griffiths, Owen Griffiths, Miss Cora Delacourt, Miss Edith Pickering, Marston, Wendy Smythe, Agnes, Mrs Clemens, Mrs Patel, Edwin Nesbitt, Sally Bright

Published by Cat Sebastian

Rating: 9.5/10

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