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Anatomy of a Soldier

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Shortlisted for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017.

One of our Books of the Year 2016.

A stunning concept where 41 inanimate objects relate the story of a soldier, Captain Tom Barnes. From training, through Afghanistan and a land mine that leaves him an amputee to his rehabilitation, mending and eventual accepting of prosthetic limbs. Powerful, heartbreaking, hypnotic and very unusual, we see the soldier’s life and that of a couple of local lads, one whose father helps the ‘infidels’ and one an insurgent. All three fates are tragically linked. The objects the author chooses to speak to us are interestingly chosen. We have the obvious such as odd bits of kit and surgical equipment but also get the mundane such as Tom’s mother’s red handbag, the razor he uses to tidy himself up with for his grandparents visit, a photo, a letter, money used by the military as compensation, the carpet the local family sit on and, I’ve said 34 others. It is highly intriguing and surprisingly tender.

Sarah Broadhurst

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