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One man. One love. One war. He must leave her to fight. Duty calls.
After three years' service in the British Army, Private Samuel Ogden travels to France at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Fiancée Alice is left in the village, marriage on hold.
But Havercake Lad is not a love story. It is a gritty tale of daily life as a rifleman in frontline fighting.
Based on official military records, this novel plots many of the war's key characters, events and battles.
Samuel Ogden is fiction. But the heroic activities of Havercake Lads, men of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, 2nd Battalion, are based firmly on fact.
Steve Ellis explores the trauma of war, the psychology of soldier-killing and the personal consequences of being constantly surrounded by casualties and corpses.
A propos de l'auteur
Former journalist, Steve Ellis, worked on the Newcastle Journal, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Sun. He was one of the launch editors of Bella and Take a Break for H Bauer magazines. Red on Green is Steve's third novel. For it he draws on his experience of working across the Indian subcontinent and several months living amongst 'internally displaced persons' in a squalid, disease-ridden camp in Bangladesh. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, Steve now lives in Kent with his wife. He has two grown-up daughters and two granddaughters. He plays the piano, reads avidly, enjoys fly fishing for trout and loves tea.
