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2010 Single Titles Reviewers' Choice Award Winner. --Single Titles
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If life is cheap, how much is love worth? It's 1914 and young Rose Courtenay has a decision to make. Please her wealthy parents by marrying the man of their choice - or play her part in the war effort? The chance to escape proves irresistible and Rose becomes a nurse. Working in France, she meets Lieutenant Alex Denham, a dark figure from her past. He's the last man in the world she'd get involved with - especially now he's married.
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61 of 61 people found the following review helpful
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It's 1914 and upper-class girls are expected to marry well and do as they're told, but certainly not occupy themselves with anything useful. The heroine, Rose, dreams of going to Oxford (and is actually offered a place), but this is vetoed by her parents who tell her what she needs is a husband who can form her opinions for her. What intelligent girl wouldn't rebel against that? So she does what any heroine in her situation would do - she runs away and trains to become a nurse, eventually ending up in France. The hero, Alex, meanwhile, is the sort of man Rose's parents disapprove of strongly - he has a dubious past, no money and no social standing - but he has courage and integrity, something the man chosen for Rose definitely didn't have. It is therefore no wonder she falls for Alex instead. There is only one problem - he's already married ...
This is a great love story set against the backdrop of the first World War and is an epic tale that really shows the reader what it was actually like, both in the trenches and for those who were fighting to patch up the wounded after the carnage. The author must have done a tremendous amount of research, which has been fitted into the story effortlessly. The reader is left with a feeling of awe at how anyone could have coped in such conditions and how the human spirit is able to triumph over adversity. This is a great read and I would highly recommend it!
This is a great love story set against the backdrop of the first World War and is an epic tale that really shows the reader what it was actually like, both in the trenches and for those who were fighting to patch up the wounded after the carnage. The author must have done a tremendous amount of research, which has been fitted into the story effortlessly. The reader is left with a feeling of awe at how anyone could have coped in such conditions and how the human spirit is able to triumph over adversity. This is a great read and I would highly recommend it!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Margaret James is an expert wordsmith. As in her other novels, you'll find not a wasted word anywhere in The Silver Locket. I can see no point in highlighting the plot here as so many reviewers have already done this. Instead, what I want to do is address all those of you who doubt about historical romance. Here, in The Silver Locket, you have a fine example of a pager turner. It will grip you from page one and you'll really wish you didn't have to go to work before finishing it.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book a few days before Christmas, but I started reading it the same night and I just had to keep reading. I don't read much romantic fiction but I found all the details of the first world war really fascinating and absorbing. I got very involved with the hero and heroine. Some historical novels make you feel like you are being lectured, but this one took me back to the period and made me feel I was there.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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I couldn't put it down and it was a bargain at 99p! I was literally reading it while stirring things when cooking. Read more
Published 13 days ago by D. Herrera
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I've read many good books this year (and it's only May...), but The Silver Locket will stay with me for a long time. Read more
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Published 1 month ago by Durham 11
A touching story of love, change and war.
Meticulously researched and poignantly told, The Silver Locket is a story set against a backdrop of change. It was not just WW1 which made the early years of the 1900s turbulent. Read more
Published 1 month ago by gillijomps
Cracking good read
I bought this book with no expectations and was so surprised it was fabulous a must read for anyone who loves the Edwardian period WW1. I didn't want it to end . Read more
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A good read
Thoroughly enjoyed this book - I thought the storyline was very good and hope the author will not disappoint on her other books as this is the 1st one I have read of hers.
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Beautiful story
I loved this book! It is beautifully written and pulls the reader into the story from the first chapter with a Downton Abbey type setting complete with a wonderful cast of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Fifth Avenue
Love and War, and a Happy Ending!
This was a very nice read and i could not put it down. A true to life story about how things were for soldiers on the Front in France, in WW1--and the conditions the nurses had to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cala
Excellent Historical Romance
The year is 1914. Rose Courtenay is an eighteen year old girl, who in keeping with her upper-class upbringing, is expected to do no more than marry a man of similar social... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sheryl S. Brown
The Silver Locket
I enjoyed the beginning of the book but when the story moved onto the two wars I thought the dscriptions of the men in the trenches etc was just too much and there was far too much... Read more
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