The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell
The Valley of Bones is the seventh novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1964, it is the first of the war trilogy.[1]
The novel is separated into four chapters. The concluding sections of the previous novel, The Kindly Ones, show series protagonist Nick Jenkins trying to join the army.[2] At the beginning of this novel, it is early in 1940 and the reader sees that he has succeeded.[3]