ABOUT
THE BOOK

The Rescue Man opens on the eve of the Second World War. Liverpool is a city tense in anticipation of the coming conflict. Orphaned as a child and now approaching forty with no prospect of a family of his own, Tom Baines is a man emotionally adrift. Unable to commit to anything, he is left looking in at life from the outside, with only his fascination for architecture to connect him.
The outbreak of war brings a new sense of purpose. Baines joins the Rescue Men, retrieving the wounded and dying from bombed buildings. Yet in wartime, ordinary rules are suspended, risks taken and Baines finds himself caught up in a love affair that is as heady and all-consuming as it is transgressive.