Worthless Men Ballantine Books born to tell

born to tell

until the day she opens her front door to a mysterious stranger

such as Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ and the law of supply and demand

His stanzas inspire strength through the pure emotional energy and the vulnerability of his poems

and one that will leave an indelible imprint on every reader

Worthless Men Ballantine Books born to tellIt's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in from the country, the cattle are being driven through the streets and that evening a trainload of wounded soldiers is due to arrive. At the local mansion, its new hospital tents to the ready, waits Montague Beckwith, himself a psychological casualty of the war. In the town's poorest quarter, Winnie Barley prays that Walter, her missing son, will be on the train