The absolutist

the long version

September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame ans dishonour on the Bancroft family.But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that