William Brown has always known what is expected of him.

Born into a wealthy English family and raised beneath the weight of reputation, duty and silence, his future has been carefully arranged long before he is old enough to understand it. But as the world around him begins to change, William finds himself drawn further from the life prepared for him and closer to the people his family would rather he ignore.

Told through deeply personal diary entries, Sweet and Fitting follows a boy struggling to reconcile privilege with reality, patriotism with fear and love with the harsh expectations placed upon him. As friendships form in unlikely places and tensions rise both at home and beyond it, William is forced to confront the uncomfortable truth that growing up often means losing the version of yourself you were taught to be.

Tender, haunting and quietly devastating, Sweet and Fitting is a coming-of-age historical novel about class, grief, identity and the things we choose to remember.