It was one of the last works written by Jerome, better known for his Three Men in a Boat, and shows the influence of the First World War on him.
It is a Bildungsroman in which a Cambridge University educated woman Joan Allway becomes a journalist and then a wartime ambulance driver.
She encounters various different people, gaining new experiences and confronting many of the moral issues of the day.
In 1921 the novel was turned into a silent British film All Roads Lead to Calvary directed by Kenelm Foss.
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