Editing Parade's End (section)

== Plot summary ==
The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, "the last [[Tory]]", a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who serves in the British Army during the [[World War I|First World War]]. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him through her sexual promiscuity. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife's child. Meanwhile, his incipient affair with Valentine Wannop, a high-spirited [[pacifism|pacifist]] and [[women's suffrage|women's suffragist]], has not been consummated, despite what all their friends believe.

The two central novels follow Tietjens in the army in France and Belgium, as well as Sylvia and Valentine in their separate paths over the course of the war.