
Ancient Sunlight
Throughout his childhood and adolescence Willie Maddison has always felt himself to be a misfit. He has never known a mother''s love nor felt any affection from a father who blames his son for his wife''s death in child-birth. The outbreak of war in 1914 gives him the chance to escape the suffocating constraints of his home life and he enlists in the army. It is in the trenches that at last he fin...
Throughout his childhood and adolescence Willie Maddison has always felt himself to be a misfit. He has never known a mother''s love nor felt any affection from a father who blames his son for his wife''s death in child-birth. The outbreak of war in 1914 gives him the chance to escape the suffocating constraints of his home life and he enlists in the army. It is in the trenches that at last he fin...