Billy is still getting sex elsewhere, from Charles Manning and other London male friends to a farm boy he picks up when on active duty in France. Only when they sneak out of one of the mother’s séances, do they have time for a quick fuck. The mother is very watchful of her daughter’s morals and the couple can get little time together. Jane’s mother is nominally a widow but Billy suspects that there never was a husband. He is now staying with Jane, Jane’s mother and Jane’s sister.
At the end of the previous novel, Billy was off to visit his fiancée, Jane. The ghosts in the title refer, at least, in part, to the many men still sent to their deaths during this period, when, as Barker says, talk of pacifism was banned and there was still a call for that final push. The final novel in Barker’s World War I trilogy is about the waning months of World War I. Home » England » Pat Barker » The Ghost Road Pat Barker: The Ghost Road
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