Book Review written by maggie Perkovich & read live on the bookshow on 28/8/14
Always a good writer This author
has created a book very in tune with this year's
commemoration of the first
war.
Did you know that after it ended in 1918 many many men returned
disabled, shell shocked
or otherwise unable to work ever again.? Their wives
and fiancees were shocked and
often unable to cope with the return of their
heroes and of course many many were also
killed leaving widows and spare
women or as Adele Parks calls them "Spare Brides"
We meet Lydia, rich
beautiful who secretly despises her husband for having a "safe"
job that
prevented him from fighting in the War.
Sarah and her sister Beatrice helped
their sister-in-law to nurse their brother who had lost
not only his limbs
but most of his reason for living Paschendale.
Sarah had lost her husband
permanently as he had died of his wounds and never came home.
Beatrice who
had had an "understanding" with a young man who had also died now felt
that
she would never marry at all.
Into this mix arrives a dashing young man who
was an actual War hero, much decorated,
but not really of the same class as
the aformentioned ladies. Edgar and Lydia are drawn
together despite their
disparite upbringings and what follows is a very intense picture
of life
after the War. Well written and full of suprising twists and turns I liked it
very much.
Well recommended Maggie Perkovic
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