As an exercise in revealing an unreliable narrator, A+, though a short story might have sufficed to explore this. I kept reading because I am ever in love with Ford's striking prose. By the last page I was more than ready to be done with these poor repressed idiots! Let's see if I change my mind after watching the Granada adaptation starring Jeremy Brett ;)

This novel is shorter and more easily approachable than Parade's End, yet I feel like it must always suffer in comparison. Sure, there is similar social commentary on changing values in the Edwardian era. But Ford's modernist style is less developed and I missed the rich inner life of scholars Christopher and Valentine and the gritty world-building of wartime Europe.