This review was first published in Viewpoint: On Books for Young Adults Volume 1 Number 3 (Spring 1993)  “Do you believe in good and evil, Mum?” I asked… “…I mean evil as a sort of force that you could fight.”   She frowned. “Evil and good are potentials in all of us. You have a…

[I don’t seem to have a record of where this was first published!] David Metzenthen’s Boys of Blood and Bone is an ambitious novel linking the stories of Henry Lyon, in the summer before he starts his first year of Law at university, and Andy Lansell, Australian digger killed in the Somme in 1918. Andy…