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Pros
The characters are well drawn and most of them likeable. Snout, the gypsy boy, ranks up there with my all time favorite characters as a gifted scholar unaccepted by the intellectual elites.
Unmarried beatrice faces challenges in every direction, first with a rigid landlady. Agatha takes on both negative as well as positive characteristics and so becomes a more fleshed-out character (no pun intended) bates, and susan howatch.
The anti-war thesis expands as the charactersper-sue their individual dreams and livelihood. Characters who are enticed by the glories of war and the horrific realities of war are both part of the book. A lengthy but interesting book about a time of p... Read More
Cons
The author gratuitously * off a dog for emotional effect. Simonson appears only to fulfill a writer's contract with the publisher.
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Quality
Loved the settings the characters the writingthe historical detail
A reader can feel so vividly the atmosphere at the time the complexity of the characters and the the forever living ideals of h... Read More
Reality strikes and that same carefree world is shattered
The trenches the shelling the casualty stations of course play a forward role no puns intended
Price
I can’t remember whether this was on sale or whether i got it through the emails that advertise amazon’s kindle freebies for that day
Shipping
On the onset of the first world war when the german soldiers march into belgium rye sees an influx of refugees the wounded and the homeless
Packaging/appearance
Partly it checked the boxes of what i like plucky heroine dealing with hard times values of care and love
Competitiveness
Similar to simonson’s earlier book major pettigrew’s last stand she creates characters that stay with you
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- This product had a total of 10,919 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 21 2024.
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I was struck by the similarity of time and place between simonsons summer
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That is not to forget hugh bonnevilles garden party announcement at downton that england was now at war with germany
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We are unfortunately reminded of the state of medical knowledge lack of penicillin and burgeoning understanding of acute head and limb injuries and what wasnt available to treat them
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And if there was any doubt of the horrors and suffering inflicted on belgium they must be put to rest
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But also simonson has built intriguing characters and wrapped them up in one complete novel bittersweet as it is
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The personalities of the small villiage the hypocrisies of the times not unique to the past really and look at people as huge events were about to unfold that they could not comprehend
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I usually read much lighter stuff
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Revealing small town customs affecting single woman and aristocratic young men
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