Random Harvest

Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton. The novel was immensely popular placing second on Publishers Weekly list of best-selling novels for the year and it was published as an Armed Services Edition during WWII. It is set in the period immediately after the outbreak of the first World War. It is told in the first person by Harrison and by means of two extended external analepses tells the story of Charles Rainier a wealthy businessman and politician from the time he was invalided out of the army during World War I his subsequent memory loss and partial recovery his assuming control of the family business to his attempts to recover his memory just as Hitler invades Poland.