A novel
A funeral rite. An elegy. A mass.
Five soldiers— British, French, and German— move through the Western Front of the First World War. As each life extinguishes, the story passes to the next. The land holds them all. The land is the war.
Built entirely from first-person testimony: letters, journals, oral interviews, and memoirs. Every plot point drawn from real voices. Over four hundred excerpts, assembled across a decade of research.
The ground takes back what it lent. The story passes into soil.
This is not about what was lost. It is about what was witnessed.
In development.