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Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.
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Stephen Archibald
Jamie
Joseph Blatchley
Robert
Paul Kermack
Jamie's father
Jessie Combe
Father's wife
William Carroll
Their son, Archie
Morag McNee
Father's girlfriend
Lennox Milne
Grandmother
John Young
Shop assistant
Gerald James
Mr Bridge
Radir
Egyptian boy
Andrew
Boy in home
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