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by Charlotte Bingham (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books (28 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553817817
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553817812
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 99,009 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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As Walter Berrisford paints beautiful Katherine Garland, she asks him to put a ladybird on her finger without his knowing why. He is appalled when he discovers that Katherine is a Nazi. The outbreak of war means that her sister Caro and her friend Robyn join the FANYs, while former maids, Betty and Trixie, work in a factory. War brings frantic romance to all, including their flatmate Edwina O'Brien, but it is Betty, transferred to decode at the Park that alone discovers the truth about the Ladybird.

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Before the Second World War breaks, Chevrons, the idyllic country house where the Garlands have lived for centuries, has already been touched by events in Europe. To the horror of her family, Katherine, the eldest daughter, has run off to join the Nazis. On the outbreak of war, young Caro Garland and her friend Robyn leave Chevrons to help the war effort. In London, they are joined by Edwina, a beautiful Irish girl with such striking looks that she catches the eye of the future Prime Minister. While Caro and Robyn join the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Edwina is singled out for undercover work of the most glamorous nature.

All the girls meet and fall in love but in such an atmosphere of fleeting pleasure and fatal acceptance, it would seem that the young will never find lasting happiness.


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3.0 out of 5 stars Playing at war..., 17 Dec 2007
By Sissel M. Østdahl "smaureen" (Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Goodnight Sweetheart (Hardcover)
English Caro, Robyn and Irish Edwina. Three girls before and during World War II.

The jacket of this book is so lovely, I hoped for an improvement after a couple of disappointments with Bingham lately.

Alas, not so. The first 100-200 pages or so consist of endless dialogues about the tiniest details. Page after page nothing happens as we are told what people wear, eat and say to one another. The (too) many details become tedious; a lot of it readers can very well assume themselves and it does make for skipping pages in between.

The book starts out concentrating on Caro and her conversations with a young painter who is doing a mural of Caro's family, the Garlands. We are introduced to Caro's sister, beautiful Katherine, who is running away with her boyfriend and joining the nazis. Then there is Caro's friend Robyn and the two girls' rather uneventful pre-war life.

In the vicinity of Caro's home in the country, Chevrons, the girls drive around in their little cars (the Angel and the Bentley), have some rather fun accidents, nothing serious, only part of their daily amusement. Getting some bumps and blue marks but, really, nothing to fuss about, and nothing that a hot bath cannot cure. They drink too strong gin and tonics and discuss the prospects of future boyfriends/husbands and so on.

The upcoming war does become a topic as it nears, but mostly it's all about the uniform the girls are going to wear when they join the FANYs (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). This is a most serious matter, as the book explains, and no hanky-panky. Young Caro's Aunt Cicely was a FANY in the first World War and according to her, their uniform is about the best, which solves the matter of war duty for Caro. As Aunt Cicely says to Caro's friend, Robyn (quote): "You can drive well, you have a good figure, you will look well in the FANYs. The uniform is most flattering. You will shine in it, believe me, especially if we make sure to have it tailored for you at your father's tailor, which frankly is "de rigeur" if you want to cut a dash".

What a glorious war, one may be tempted to say.

The war does come and the girls do start their duty. They experience the living from day to day in London, taking part in the frantic gaiety among people who do not know if next day will ever come, and grabbing love when they find it.

However, in spite of all this, the lightness, the feeling of being in a play rather than in a most devastating reality, continues throughout the book. Oh, there are grave incidents, unimaginable tragedies and always the general bleakness of war all around. But still, the flippancy of the three girls' almost carefree chatter as they sail through it all, or at least, that's as it seems to me, fails to get me hooked.

I DID like the end. A happy end, actually. The book is very well constructed in the way it starts out just indicating slightly what will in fact finally finish the whole thing 400 pages later. All the girls find love and get married to their sweethearts. Some sweethearts do not make it through the war and are bid goodnight in a most touching way.

Actually two stars, since most of the book is rather boring (the endless dialogues, only half of which are necessary). The third star for excellent characterization and after all, some good fun with the darling young heroines.


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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars The cover was nicer than the book, 1 Jun 2008
By M. E. Newell (Marietta, Georgia, United States) - See all my reviews
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When the war came Caro, Robyn, and Edwina decide to join the FANYS, where they find themshelves invovled in secret work. Betty and Trixie former maids in Caro's home also are drawn into secret world of spies.
"Goodnight Sweetheart" is the lastest paperback by Charlotte Bingham. While I really wanted to love this book it was just not that good. The writer spends way to much time on details that don't really need that time. Overall "Goodnight Sweetheart" was a decent read, but you may want to pass
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing fair in love or war, 17 Nov 2008
By Marsha Hackett (Cork, Ireland.) - See all my reviews
Unlike some, I love Bingham's attention to period detail - a skill that's often in short supply in these rush-to-get-there times. The author seems to use this technique to create the atmosphere unique to the times about which she is writing - and that is another of her talents, the ability to write fluently and informatively about any era from Edwardian times to the present day. Not many novelists are capable of painting on such a large canvas but Bingham does, and while some criticise her for not staying still in one place, I love the feeling that with each book I read I am going to be taken on a different journey.

Here we're on fairly familiar ground, in as much as the author is again writing about World War II, seen through the eyes of several very different young women, particularly the sisters Katherine and Caro Garland, Caro's friend Robyn and Edwina, an Irish beauty they meet in London. To the horror of Caro and Katherines' family it seems that Katherine is sympathetic to the Nazis and apparently leaves home intent on joining the Fascist ranks, while Caro and Robyn go to London and enlist in the FANYs - as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry were known, while the glamorous Edwina finds herself enrolled in undercover work. But then as so often happens with this author, all is not quite what it seems, particularly as far as one of the two Garland girls is concerned.

And again, in typical Bingham style - naturally the young women all fall in love, but since this is wartime they find out that the love and war are not the easiest of bedfellows. As their lives as well as the lives of those they love become more endangered, like most everyone else caught up in a conflict in which for the first time cities were blitzed and innocent women and children burned to death or blown to bits, not unnaturally the behaviour of the heroines seems to grow increasingly frenetic, foolhardy and on occasion sometimes utterly courageous, as they all fight not only to survive that most terrible of times but to make sure that if they are indeed going to die then to make sure that they do so in their service of their country. Yes, they may seem to spend an inordinate amount of time apparently talking and behaving in what appears to be a trivial fashion, but my feeling is that the author is trying to show that people in wartime only went on like this in order to hide their true feelings - the very real fears and horrors felt and experienced by anyone who found themselves alive at a time when it seemed the whole world was about to go up in flames. It's a well known fact that the greater the danger grows, the more skittish the behaviour often becomes.

By the time the war ends some find happiness while others suffer loss and here once again the author scores in her sympathetic handling of the sorrows of war. Goodnight Sweetheart - while not quite in the league of The Chestnut Tree and House of Flowers (both 5* books in my estimation) nonetheless is still a fine and a touching testament to the work of certain young women in WW2 - and the fact that I read it at one sitting shows that Bingham hasn't lost either her unique voice or her narrative power.
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