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A World War I veterans comfortable life is upended by buried memories in this completely real and convincing novel by an Academy Awardwinning screenwriter (The New York Times). Charles Rainiers family feared him lost along with so many of Britains youth during the Great War. But two years after he was reported missing in action, he appears in a Liverpool hospital with no memory of the time that has passed. Rainier marries and embarks on a life of relative success, but he still cant recall his time on the battlefielduntil the first bombs of the Second World War begin to fall. Suddenly, his memories flood back. Now, recollections of a violent battlefield, a German prison, and a passionate affair all threaten to fracture the peaceful life he has worked so hard to create. From the bestselling author of Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chipswho also earned an Oscar for his screenwriting during Hollywoods Golden AgeRandom Harvest is a moving account of the trauma of war, the disruption of a seemingly ordinary life, and the courage required to find redemption in the face of the most overwhelming circumstances.