Dimensions
154 x 233 x 30mm
From its dramatic beginning on the Gare du Nord, 'Hatchett And Lycett' - humorous and touching by turns - plunges the reader into a three-cornered love story and a murder mystery to satisfy the keenest fan of the genre.
Alec Lycett, an upright lieutenant in the fourth Croydon Light infantry, a regiment famous for their reluctance to leave the trenches in the Great War, has a dark secret in his past. Dennis Hatchett, whose father disappeared when he was a child, and whose love poetry always ends up being about the Spanish Civil War, shares in that secret history.
Norma, the English rose who is the object of both their affections, finds herself besieged by their intensely close and complicated friendship just as another murder at the school threatens to bring down her world as much as the impending war.
This is a home-front war story that will make you laugh and make you cry. As it moves towards the dramatic revelations of its climax, it has witty and important things to say about love and friendship, murder and war.
