1945, the war has ended and Nancy and her husband Joe leave their military roles to live with his family. Nancy expected to be working but her new family want her to stay home to complete domestic tasks and bear children. Her heart loongs for the value and purpose she felt during the war. […]
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Archive for August 2021
The Rainbow, by Carly Schabowski
TRIGGER WARNING: this book contains violence and war crimes 2015, England: Isla visits her elderly grandparents and discovers a rainbow coloured scarf and a newspaper article in the attic which suggests her grandfather Tomasz fought for the Nazis. He now has dementia and she doesn’t want to upset him so she travels to his […]
Her Previous Self, by Anne Allen
TRIGGER WARNING: this book contains cot death and domestic abuse. Lucy Stewart moves back to Guernsey following the breakdown of her marriage after her daughter’s tragic death. Her parents abandon her to go on a cruise, leaving Lucy in charge of her elderly grandfather. But she is haunted by a woman’s portrait in her […]