Emily Spurr has researched brains, parasites, chat bots, psychological health and perimenopause and given us this humorous fictional relationship in ‘Beatrix and Fred’.The lives or three servicemen who died in World War One are cast against a backdrop of their heritage and their potential in Ross McMullin's latest historical biography, 'Life So Full of Promise'. Their loss is set against the experience that shaped them and the future to which they could have so readily contributed.