review by Maggie Perkovic on show 12th January.
This is an easy read, set in Liverpool just before world war two and ending just after.
Although the marriage of this liverpool housewife was rather humdrum she coped with the love for her children and with the romance she found in the films of that era plus listening to the crooners on the radio and records. However a chance encounter one afternoon turns her life upside down with the result she loses her children her house and all her security in one fell swoop. Her previously devoted husband now despises her and she has to make a new life away from all she has loved.
How she copes and how she jouneys to Paris just before the Germans invade before eventually finding happiness is very readable but, although the book is in the best seller paper backs it left me a bit cold, I read it on the train journey back from Manchester, which probably explains why I brought it!!!!
Christmas Magic by Cathy Kelly.
Another easy read, short stories, not all about Christmas, but nearly all with a happy ending!!! A bit
like Maeve Binchy with Irish Families and feel good factor, a read on a train I think would be best. no
need to concentrate to hard!!
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