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Days Of Grace (2009)

by Catherine Hall(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1846271835 (ISBN13: 9781846271830)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Portobello Books

review 1: A novel set in two time periods: the present, where an elderly woman is dying of cancer; and the Second World War during which she was evacuated from East London to the Kent countryside as a girl, to the home of a clergyman whose daughter becomes a close friend - but things go disastrously wrong, and for the rest of her life she is haunted by guilt. There are good evocations of life in wartime London. This is a moving and very sad novel, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
review 2: A couple of days ago, I really thought this would be at least a four star book. The best written part was about a 12 year old lower-class London girl being evacuated into the countryside during WWII and the idyllic life she encountered there. (the scene of her first exposure to a Sunday ro... moreast beef dinner is spectacular.) Moving between that time and the same girl--Nora--as an elderly woman with terminal cancer, the story moved along quite well, but then a few too many loose threads occurred along with some extra melodrama(s) (one of which is pretty wholly unbelievable) and it stuttered on to a pretty underwhelming conclusion. Too bad. less

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