A dark wartime story is told with a light touch
Fiction
At The Water’s Edge
By Sara Gruen
Two Roads, €18.60
It is New Year’s Eve 1944. The US is at war, but three bright young things, Philadelphia’s finest, are celebrating the calendar’s turn like a single soldier hasn’t even been killed.
Controversially, two of them are able-bodied men. They tried to enlist in the army, they insist when questioned, but were denied because of minor disabilities. The third is ...
