Another review

Fiction: A Napoleonic Game of Cat and Mouse
A shell-shocked English officer seeks solace in the Scottish Hebrides. Little does he know his past is pursuing him.

"Here’s a good one for you, as the days shorten and the winter chill descends and an engrossing novel is just what’s called for. Andrew Miller’s “Now We Shall Be Entirely Free” (Europa, 410 pages, $19) begins in 1809, when the British officer John Lacroix is brought back to his Somerset estate, having been severely wounded in Spain during a retreat from Napoleon’s French Army. Lacroix gradually recovers in body but not in mind. Rankled by some repressed memory from the war, he abruptly resolves to go wandering, choosing the Scottish isles—“Albion’s own savage back room”—as a serviceably remote and unknowable destination...."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fiction-a-napoleonic-game-of-cat-and-mouse-11571409718