Thecaptivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows thelife, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war LondonItis 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstepwith Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at theCaledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that therecould ever be another war.Returningto London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, andlost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youththat he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just likethe rest of the world - and Sidney, carrying a terrible, secret guilt,must decide what to do with the rest of his life. But he has heard acall: constant, though quiet, and growing ever more persistent. To theincredulity of his family and the derision of his friends - theirrepressible actor Freddie, and the beautiful, spiky Amanda - Sidneymust now negotiate his path to God: the course of which, much like truelove, never runs smooth.The touching, engaging and surprising origin story of the Grantchester Mysteries's beloved Archdeacon, Sidney Chambers,The Road to Grantchesterwill delight new and old fans alike.