|summary=One of the very best novels of this, or any, year, with a scarred war survivor returning to face many other things that scarred him. Completely memorable events, characters and style make this simply supreme.
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For a very different WWI veteran character with a similar facial wound to Quinn, you would probably enjoy [[The Cocaine Salesman by Conny Braam]]. But ''Bereft'' is now on a par with [[Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel]] for novels of a man quitting a war to return to face something worse.