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Love Eternal
First published 1918
Godfrey Knight, the imaginative son of a strict clergyman, grows up beside Isobel Blake, whose scepticism contrasts with his belief in spiritual continuity and love beyond a single lifetime. Family hostility and circumstance repeatedly separate them, sending Godfrey through education, travel, military service and encounters with fraudulent spiritualism.
Their relationship endures across years marked by service in India and the First World War, even when marriage and ordinary happiness appear impossible. The novel is a long spiritual romance about faith, reincarnation and whether an attachment tested by distance and death can still shape a life.
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