One Young Man

The young clerks expect a prayer meeting at the Y.M.C.A. Instead, they find games, laughter and a lavish tea—and hosts who are nothing like the solemn figures they imagined.

In the years before and at the opening of the Great War, Sydney Baxter is a sheltered young clerk, good-humoured and eager to get on, but unsure of the wider world beyond home and office. J. E. Hodder-Williams presents his story as a true account, told largely in Baxter’s own words: first of the friendships and confidence he finds at the Y.M.C.A., then of a young man weighing what duty asks of him as war changes everything. There is no grand pose here, only an ordinary fellow facing an extraordinary choice. How will the quiet “home boy” meet the life waiting beyond the office door?

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