The Good Soldier (1915)
198 pages 3.9/5 Goodreads
This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy - or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them.
Author: Ford Madox Ford
ISBN: 9780393927924
Content Warnings
Mental Health & Emotional
Grief / bereavement (major focus) Suicide (discussed or ideation)
Other
Gaslighting / emotional manipulation Infidelity War / combat (referenced)
Violence & Physical Harm
Domestic violence / intimate partner abuse Self-harm / suicide (depicted)