MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Growing Up Is For Adults
by Gordon Scapens
Before I knew about war
we were fearless soldiers
advancing across childhood.
Before I knew about death
I knew how to fall
from Saturday morning films.
Before I knew about fear
I was such a hero
that always won the day.
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