- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Large Print Books; Large Print edition edition (30 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0727873024
- ISBN-13: 978-0727873026
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14.1 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,556,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It is the turn of the century at Northrop Hall and life is beginning to change as storm clouds gather over Europe. Diana Arndale, just sixteen, is looking forward to her coming-out in London but her well-ordered, comfortable and predictable existence is about to be turned upside down.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
one of the most interesting books I have read especially about the first world war. Couldn't put it down and now wait eagerly to read the next in the series. Margaret Bacon's writing is in every way detailed in the historic events and her characters make you feel you know them through and through.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not up to comparison with Pilcher and Binchy
24 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
I have to disagree with the editorial reviewer. I read this book because it was compared to Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy. It's not up to the level of either of these great writers. Fans of Pilcher's "Coming Home" will recognize some similarities, probably because Bacon was trying to write something similar. But unlike "Coming Home," the characters are not well enough developed that we care about them, so when terrible things happen to them, it seems excessive rather than tragic. It lacks the richness and depth of other, better war novels. Not terrible, but disappointing.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Not a feel-good book
2 Jun 2007
Format:Hardcover
This book starts out with an interesting story at the start of the twentieth century. It shows how good life was for the upper classes and what life was like for those who served them. The servants were about one step above serfs and their lives were virtually owned by their masters. When World War 1 breaks out, life changes dramatically in Northrop Hall. The servants go off to war, the eldest grand daughter of dowager Lady Arndale goes off to be a war nurse and her brother, who is to inherit Northrop Hall after his father,joins the army. There are vivid descriptions of trench warfare, disease, starvation, horrible war wounds and gassed soldiers. The soldiers are shot if they refuse to go out of the trenches and face almost certain death or wounds. At the end of the war, the characters left have all suffered losses in their lives in various ways.
This book could be read as an anti war book and it demonstrates in grim detail the realities of war, the lies of propaganda, and how out of touch the higher military were regarding the actual conditions on the battlefields, and how they made mistake after mistake. It also is a condemnation of the old class system that has died out in England.
I could not compare Margaret Bacon to either Rosamund Pilcher or Maeve Binchy in Northrop Hall. This book is too cynical and painful with badly damaged characters of all classes at the end.
This book could be read as an anti war book and it demonstrates in grim detail the realities of war, the lies of propaganda, and how out of touch the higher military were regarding the actual conditions on the battlefields, and how they made mistake after mistake. It also is a condemnation of the old class system that has died out in England.
I could not compare Margaret Bacon to either Rosamund Pilcher or Maeve Binchy in Northrop Hall. This book is too cynical and painful with badly damaged characters of all classes at the end.
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