The lives of youth, the ones that suffered the First World War and the
postwar period, has been rarely recounted with such depth, elegance, and
accuracy. This book is about the life of the paper mill owner's daughter
who was struggling to emancipate herself with those of the young student
from Oxford and with the suffering that she finds at the forefront
during the war. Her passion for study and literature seems frivolous and
she dreams of a better time in which she could be naïve.