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Fictional family sagas WW1 and WW2?
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7 Oct 2009 13:36 BST
Jen Errik says:
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard for WW2. Some years since I read them - I don't think they were too romantic, but I couldn't swear to it.
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7 Oct 2009 16:53 BST
Cheryl says:
Penny Vincenzi's spoil of times trilogy very good especially 1st in series
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7 Oct 2009 16:59 BST
J. Cook says:
The Cazalet Chronicles are wonderful and are definitely not romantic - much to my relief.
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7 Oct 2009 17:02 BST
Fiona Hurley says:
The Almonds and Raisins trilogy runs from the early 1900s to the 1970s, obviously taking in both wars. It's about the Jewish Sandberg family who leave Russia and arrive in Manchester in 1905. Excellent read, great characters and sense of place.
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7 Oct 2009 18:04 BST
Briony says:
No 1 Chesterfield Square, although it spans twenty five years from 1900 to 1925, I'd say about a third of the book covers WW1. The product description on here describes it better than I could and I found it to be accurate. I've just posted a review and enjoyed it very much.
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7 Oct 2009 20:16 BST
A. Price says:
The Dreaming Suburb and The Avenue Goes to War by R F Delderfield follow the fortunes of several families living on the same street from 1918 to post WW2. Better still is To Serve Them All Their Days by the same author, which follows the life of shell-shocked David Powlett-Jones as he embarks on a career as a teacher in a public school. It covers the period of 1916/17 to just post WW2 at Bamfylde School which you soon become very fond of.
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7 Oct 2009 22:21 BST
A Reader from Stockport says:
I absolutely agree with the reader who recommended Penny Vicenzi's spoils of time trilogy. My favourite was the middle one but they were all great. They span from the first world war right through to after the second world war. Wonderful characters and stories.
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7 Oct 2009 23:03 BST
C. Madden says:
Agree with Penny Vincenzi choices, also My Father, My Son by Shelagh Kelly. Emma Blair has written lots of books set during wartime (slightly romantic but not mushy). In Love and War by Eileen Townsend, An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough. There are loads more, will come back when I look through everything!
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7 Oct 2009 23:56 BST
doof dinghead says:
Try Mary Wesley's 'The Camomile Lawn'. Five cousins arrive at their aunt's Cornish holiday home for the summer of 1939. It's the end of their youth and way of life with the imminent war in Europe. The book plots their diaspora during wartime.
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8 Oct 2009 00:01 BST
doof dinghead says:
Try Mary Wesley's 'The Camomile Lawn'. Five cousins arrive at their aunt's Cornish holiday home for the summer of 1939. It's the end of their youth and way of life with the imminent war in Europe. The book plots their diaspora during wartime.
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11 Nov 2009 17:03 GMT
Mr. Michael Macfarlane says:
Though not strictly concerning WW1 &WW2 in great detail, Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess is a fantastic novel. It is told through the perspective of a fictional writer based on Somerset Maugham and it spans from WW1 to the eighties. His family play a significant role in the story as well as the family of his friend and future pope (again fictional) Carlo Campanati. Joyce, Eliot, Ford and a few others are mentioned as peripheral characters as well! Read the reviews on this site as they sum the plot up critically very well.
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11 Nov 2009 20:29 GMT
Furny the Bookworm says:
Hi
How about Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. (Quote from Amazons product description) " Stephens life goes through a series of traumatic experiences,from the clandestine love affair that tears the family apart with whom he lives,to the unprecedented experinces of war itself". Furny x
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