They Lived That Spring: F.J. Thwaites

This is a story of victory, not on the battlefield, but in the heart of a man who returns to England after three years of soldiering and finds that his once happy little world has been shattered. They Lived That Spring is a story of husband and wife, of father and child, of love turned to hatred, of unjustified suspicion and tragic misunderstanding. It tells also of courage and human sympathy; and how, by the friendship of a young woman and an old priest, Norman Howard fights his way back through the dark night of bitterness to dignity, happiness and peace.