Length6h 20m
About this audiobook
November 1918.
The Armistice has been signed, but for Henry MacLeod the war isn't over.
At thirty-five, the Scottish lawyer buries his wife, Moira—another casualty of the Spanish flu—and stands alone in the graveyard with his grief and the arm he left behind on the battlefield. Then Alex Reid appears: pathologist, wartime lover, the man Henry swore he'd never see again.
Henry calls what happened between them a mistake—stress, desperation, the chaos of war. Alex isn't convinced. Neither, in his quieter moments, is Henry.
As a city still reeling from war and plague slowly finds its feet, Alex becomes the one steady thing in Henry's unravelling world: patient, present, unwilling to let Henry hide from what he felt in the trenches, or from what he still feels now.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Romance
Length6 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part One: The Weight of Dead
2Chapter One: Fresh Earth
3Chapter Two: The Man at the Gate
4Chapter Three: The Armistice and the Ledger
5Chapter Four: The Pathologist’s Call
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6Part Two: What the War Left
7Chapter Five: James Abernethy’s Wisdom
8Chapter Six: The First Pension Case
9Chapter Seven: Princes Street in the Rain
10Chapter Eight: The Dugout
11Chapter Nine: The Royal Infirmary
12Part Three: Cracks in the Masonry
13Chapter Ten: What the Reverend Knows
14Chapter Eleven: The Geddes Victory
15Chapter Twelve: James Abernethy’s Concern
16Chapter Thirteen: Withdrawal
17Part Four: What Survives
18Chapter Fourteen: Alex at the Door
19Chapter Fifteen: The Confession
20Chapter Sixteen: What Edinburgh Looks Like Now
21Chapter Seventeen: James Abernethy’s Ultimatum
22Chapter Eighteen:
The Arrangement
23Chapter Nineteen: Greyfriars in January
24Chapter Twenty:
The New Practice
25Chapter Twenty-One:
The Letter
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