War Love and Regret

September 1919:20 year-old Michael Pratt takes a train from London to Lichfield to deliver some letters to Gloria Holloway. Michael fought alongside Gloria's brother Wilson during the Great War but in 1917, Wilson laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Holloway family.

But the letters are not the real reason for Michael's visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Gloria, if he can only find the courage.

As they stroll through the streets of a city still coming to terms with the end of the war, he recalls his friendship with Wilson, from the training ground at Salisbury to the trenches of Northern France, and speaks of how the intensity of their friendship brought him from brief moments of happiness and self-discovery to long periods of despair and pain.