Good To Fine. 271 pages. The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolised the feet for Charlie MacFell; the boyhood humiliations from his brutal father, and the weakness that made Charlie born loser-a nice chap who always got the thick end of the stick. But when First World War swept him into the hollow cast of the Western front, a new Charlie emerged-a man in search of inner strength and integrity with a woman who can stand by him.