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Stratton's War (Hardcover)

by Laura Wilson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 449 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (7 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752876236
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752876238
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 353,796 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jessica Mann, LITERARY REVIEW
'Secret service agents, gangsters, good honest cockneys and the blitz combine to make an immensely pleasurable read. Laura Wilson writes beautifully, creates characters we believe in and applies a vivid imagination to well-researched facts ... convincing and exciting.'


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'Secret service agents, gangsters, good honest cockneys and the blitz combine to make an immensely pleasurable read. Laura Wilson writes beautifully, creates characters we believe in and applies a vivid imagination to well-researched facts ... convincing and exciting.' (Jessica Mann LITERARY REVIEW )

'Laura Wilson's earlier novel The Lover, set in wartime London, was rightly praised for its evocation of place and period, and she is equally successful with Stratton's War. This is not simply a question of period detail ... it is deep in the language of the novel, in the speech of the characters, even in the narrative voice. Everything sounds authentic.' (Heather O'Donaghue TLS )

'Laura Wilsons' most ambitious book ... the city's wartime atmosphere is impeccably created ...' (Susannah Yager SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

'If you half close your eyes Bulldog Drummond could bowl into this cracking plot.' (DAILY SPORT )

'Big, fat tale of Home Front shenanigans ... Laura Wilson is just as concerned with depicting London in the Blitz - which she does with impressive,impressionistic detail - as with providing a jiucy mystery' (Mark Sanderson EVENING STANDARD )

'not only an outstanding crime story, but a wonderful historical novel.' (Mike Ripley BIRMINGHAM POST )

'Wilson's seventh novel is atmospheric and exciting ... a great book.' (Peter Guttridge OBSERVER )

'This enjoyable, intelligent book is based part on fact. The Right Club existed; so did the spymasters and agents that inspired [the] characters.' (THE ECONOMIST )

'Laura Wilson specialises in acutely observed psychological thirller ... This promises to be an exceptional series ... highly recommended.' (Andrew Taylor THE SPECTATOR )

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A mystery set in war-torn London, 13 Jan 2009
By Lizzie Hayes "Lizzie" (Leicestershire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stratton's War (Hardcover)

DI Ted Stratton is a policeman working in central London in 1940. He is married to Jenny and their two children have been sent out of London. for safety. His home life is happy apart from the constant entreaties from his wife, which he is beginning to dread, to bring back the children from the country as she misses them. His extended family leave something to be desired, but we all have the same problems in this area.

He is called to investigate the death of silent screen star Mable Morgan who has been found dead impaled on railing outside her flat. The verdict is suicide, but Ted is not so sure, and against his superiors advice he starts asking questions.

On the other side of the tracks we meet Diana Calthrop, a tall elegant blonde who is recruited into MI5 working with senior official Sir Neviile Apse. Diana meets handsome Claude Ventriss and against her better judgement and her colleagues advice, is attracted by Claude. Diana is on sticky ground all round, she is married to Guy, who is serving abroad, but unlike Ted Stratton her marriage is not happy, and with her home life scrutinised by her mother-in-law, and a job that is by its very nature secretive, she really has no one she can trust.

As Ted delves further into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mable Morgan he finds links to the criminal underworld that in turn lead him to Diana's secret world, and thus their paths cross.

A brilliant story following two different walks of life set across the backdrop of war-torn London.
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Lizzie Hayes
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Starts well, but..., 1 April 2008
By George Rodger - See all my reviews
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I wanted to like this book, but it's too long - 450 pages - for the slight plot, and there's an interminable and uninteresting illicit affair subplot that adds nothing to the book, and eventually made me give up the will to live, or at least read any further after about 200 pages.
On the plus side, the wartime atmosphere is quite well conjured up(the author even uses the famous Harry Dobkin/Baptist Chapel Cellar case as the basis for the first murder), and the character of DI Ted Stratton is promising, and one whose further wartime investigations would be worth following - IF the author cuts out boring and distracting subplots.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stratton's War, 16 Mar 2008
By Nicholas Peacock MA (ConnahsQuay, Flintshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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A superb, atmospheric novel of the hardships and day to day lives of londoners in 1940. Better in my opinion than John Lawton's 'Blackout' I hope this will be the beginning of a series involving Stratton, a hardworking copper trying to do his job in impossible conditions. Complicated by the involvement of MI5 and the cloak and dagger brigade, just gives a hint of the problems encountered trying to maintain this countries internal security.
Well worth a read
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4.0 out of 5 stars Evocative of the period
There is no doubt that Laura Wilson has an innate ability to bring to life in a highly evocative way the early war years in London (1940). Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fails to live up to its promise
I was looking forward to this book having read Wilson's 'The Lover'. However, although the character of Stratton was interesting and well-drawn, the story was bogged down with... Read more
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