From Rachel Mann, Canon Poet-in-Residence at Manchester cathedral, comes a lyrical and very personal story of remembrance, faith, family and identity shaped by the chaos and trauma wrought by the Great War and the flux in early twentieth century Europe.

A memoir exploring the meaning of the Great War to people today. Looks at the influence the war had on the author's grandparents, and how it echoed through her childhood in 1970s Britain. A minor canon and resident poet at Manchester Cathedral, she also writes about discovering herself in God, undergoing a sex change and experiencing chronic illness.