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The first half of the novel is exposition with dramatic events beginning to gather pace only in the second half. This event is frankly a long time coming, occurring at about the halfway point of an almost 300-page novel. I received this book during our Book Club Yankee Book Swap (fun night where I got to open three different things but had them stolen and where the book Ketty helped me pick out was first picked and often stolen -- lots of swapping this year). She has published three acclaimed novels and numerous collections of poetry, and was commissioned to create London's largest public art poem at Waterloo.

We understand that they have a shared yearning for connection and meaning, but not quite how their friendship becomes life-changing for both of them. She forms a very lovely and quiet friendship with Peter, a young man in his 20s who is trying to make sense of his own feelings about who he is, who he loves, and his objections to the war. Twelve years old Freda is an evacuee from London sent away for fear of what might be coming soon to the capital. Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy. Billeted with the Willocks, who treat her like free labor, barely providing for her basic needs despite collecting the allowance paid to them for sheltering her, she is lonely and misses her mother and Nan.Thank you so much to NetGalley, Pushkin Press, and Sue Hubbard for allowing me to read and review this delightful novel :)) My overall rating is 3. Philip’s storyline covers his life from his early childhood and details the events that led to his reclusive life in the Fens, his conflicted feeling about war and violence, his stance as a pacifist and conscientious objector and how the events of WWII impact the same. Neither well fed nor adequately clothed for the harsh winter, she helps to care for an injured goose with Philip, a conscientious objector living in a nearby lighthouse.

If you seek a soothing and gentle yet not always pretty story with vivid narrative and wonderful characterization, this is precisely for you.Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time… Altogether a fine period novel, full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality. It is the story of a evacuee child (12 year old girl) from London who lands with a horrible family and eventually makes a friend of a young (23 yr.

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