God's Sparrows

A new edition of Philip Child’s great Canadian novel of the First World War.

A horrifying description of war as embodied in the vain and inglorious futility of World War I, God’s Sparrows is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its faith in the human spirit. Philip Child created a Canadian family saga that is still raw a lifetime later.

As his characters struggle to maintain their humanity under agonizing circumstances, Child’s book, first published in 1937, remains stirring testimony to their resilience. It offers profound insight into the experience of the Great War, as not just a global catastrophe, but also as a crucible in which the whole of his nation found itself tested.