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'Among the dross that constitutes the Liverpool saga market for women, Howard's enjoyable 19th-century historical romance of crossed love shines out.' (Daily Mail, )
‘Poignant and well plotted, this is the book to curl up with to shut out troubles.' (Woman's Realm on BEYOND THE SHINING WATER )
'Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller' (Lancashire Life )
'Life and middle class living in Liverpool in the early 1900's is the colourful backcloth for the latest novel from this master storyteller' (Coventry Evening Telegraph )
‘This saga is, like all of Audrey Howard’s books, compelling and memorable...a joy to read’ (The Historical Novels Review (A Place Called Hope) ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
‘Poignant and well plotted, this is the book to curl up with to shut out troubles.' (Woman's Realm on BEYOND THE SHINING WATER )
'Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller' (Lancashire Life )
'Life and middle class living in Liverpool in the early 1900's is the colourful backcloth for the latest novel from this master storyteller' (Coventry Evening Telegraph )
‘This saga is, like all of Audrey Howard’s books, compelling and memorable...a joy to read’ (The Historical Novels Review (A Place Called Hope) ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Lancashire Life
'Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller'
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked this book up from Oxfam (where I volunteer) and the blurb deeply interested me. This is the tale of Grace Tooley and when she first sets eyes on Rupert Bradley, her eldest brother's friend, she instantly falls for him. They later meet again after her eldest brother's death and he offers her his sympathy. They meet again during the war where Rupert is broken by what he has endured whereas Grace has emerged as a strong woman from the burdens she had to handle after her brother's death. Rupert rejects Grace's love but Grace is determined to find a way for him to love her.
This book was amazing - rich in detail - sometimes a bit too much information(i.e. soldier battles) and it does have a slow beginning for the first 80 pages but the rest is truly wonderful. It's over 500 pages long but a wonderful, wonderful book. Grace is truly an amazing woman and it brings tears to your eyes as she deals with what life throws at her. Her romance with Rupert is complicated but a love journey that makes you want to turn the pages.
Very rich in detail and a highly recommended book for war romance lovers. I found it highly touching, moving and graceful book. As much as the beginning might be slow - stick with it - there's so much more to come...
Format:Kindle Edition
This author has, in the past, written some good books. This isn't one of them.
My main complaint is just how bad the history is! I'm not a historian of the First World War, but this book's inaccuracies are depressing.
For example, the heroine's brother join the New Army and are in France, in the trenches, by October 1914. Quite impressive of them, as the first of the New Army battalions didn't get to France until May or June 1915. Then there's the regular soldier who is demobbed right at the end of the war - he was a regular! De-mobbing wasn't relevant for him in November 1918 at all.
Then there is the stereotyped, "the war was awful and pointless and every single soldier who went loathed it and hated every minute".
Of course the First World War was a tragedy of epic proportions. But - and this is an important "but", there were some people for whom it changed their lives for the better. Men who'd never been able to get solid work, but who found a niche and a role which suited them. Women who broke out of a social place that stifled and limited them.
And Grace, our heroine, apparently joins a VAD and drops in and out of nursing as she fancies it, including pushing off to France for just 3-4 weeks, and returning home easily, and for good, when a brother is killed. And she then goes on to be a married-mother-nurse. Hugely improbable.
Then there's the charming domestic violence scene - our "hero" rips her clothes off, but it's not rape, because she likes it. Then he beats her up, but she still looooooves him. Oh, and she passed the hero's child off as another man's, and that's somehow compassionate and caring of her, in relation to the other man.
This is awful.
My main complaint is just how bad the history is! I'm not a historian of the First World War, but this book's inaccuracies are depressing.
For example, the heroine's brother join the New Army and are in France, in the trenches, by October 1914. Quite impressive of them, as the first of the New Army battalions didn't get to France until May or June 1915. Then there's the regular soldier who is demobbed right at the end of the war - he was a regular! De-mobbing wasn't relevant for him in November 1918 at all.
Then there is the stereotyped, "the war was awful and pointless and every single soldier who went loathed it and hated every minute".
Of course the First World War was a tragedy of epic proportions. But - and this is an important "but", there were some people for whom it changed their lives for the better. Men who'd never been able to get solid work, but who found a niche and a role which suited them. Women who broke out of a social place that stifled and limited them.
And Grace, our heroine, apparently joins a VAD and drops in and out of nursing as she fancies it, including pushing off to France for just 3-4 weeks, and returning home easily, and for good, when a brother is killed. And she then goes on to be a married-mother-nurse. Hugely improbable.
Then there's the charming domestic violence scene - our "hero" rips her clothes off, but it's not rape, because she likes it. Then he beats her up, but she still looooooves him. Oh, and she passed the hero's child off as another man's, and that's somehow compassionate and caring of her, in relation to the other man.
This is awful.
Format:Paperback
I bought this for my Mothers birthday as she was struggling to get the books from any local book retailler. In her words, "it's a fantastic read".
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