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Come Home Charlie and Face Them
  
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Come Home Charlie and Face Them (Paperback)

by R F Delderfield (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (30 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340963794
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340963791
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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'Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming' (Evening Standard )

'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller' ( Sunday Mirror )

'Sheer, wonderful storytelling' (Chicago Tribune )

'It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well' (Books and Bookmen )

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine (Life Magazine )

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The real motive wasn’t love and it wasn’t greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom. When Charlie Pritchard is shown a way to escape his mundane and monotonous life as a small-town bank clerk in a tiny Welsh resort in the 1920s, and live instead in wealth with beautiful Delphine, he knows that this is his only chance. And he has to take it – even if the plan is to rob his own bank. However, as zero hour approaches he realises that there is far more at stake than he had ever imagined, and that there will be no escape, no escape at all.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Most impressive, 4 Feb 2009
By John Gentle (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Come Home Charlie and Face Them (Coronet Books) (Paperback)
This was a lovely surprise. How well R.F.Delderfield conveys the atmosphere of Penmadoc, a small seaside resort in North Wales in the late 1920s/early 1930s period. Charlie, a bank clerk lodging in the bank manager's house, is mesmerised by Delphine, an exotic Italian beauty who runs a cafe with her brother, and Charlie spends many long hours at the cafe (next to the bank) gazing at this beauty. An incident where he defends her against some rowdy customers breaks the ice. Suddenly they become "friends". Gradually she brings him round to the idea, with gentle persuasion, to mount a raid on the bank's vaults. In fact, after weeks of rendezvous with Delphine he eventually discovers, by late-night snooping, the shocking truth that her relationship with her "brother" appears to be illegally intimate. It's too late for Charlie to pull out, but things are even worse than he imagines. The climax is shocking, but stunning. Unputdownable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good yarn with some surprising and gripping details, 8 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Come Home Charlie and Face Them (Coronet Books) (Paperback)
This is one of my favourite books. I have to keep several copies to lend to friends. It does seem a little dated now in places but the story is excellent and the characters are rounded and believable. It is the story of a very boring ordinary man who decides to do something quite radical. His ordinary life protects him from the consequences of his actions. For some reason the description of the cheese sandwich is one that will stay with me. I don't want to give any more away, except to say that it is a fantastic book and I can't believe anyone wouldn't enjoy it. I hope it stays in print for years to come.
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