JOINT REVIEW: The Larks Still Bravely Singing by Aster Glenn Gray

Janine: The Larks Still Bravely Singing begins when Robert Montagu and David Callahan reunite after being invalided from the battlefields of World War I.

Robert and David both attended the Abbey, an English boys’ boarding school. As members of the same natural history club, they rambled along the countryside and sometimes tussled. When Robert realized that David felt the same spark he did, he feared he would corrupt David and pushed him away (I wasn’t clear on where that idea came from—maybe be...