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The Very Thought Of You (2000)

by Rosie Alison(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1846880866 (ISBN13: 9781846880865)

languge

English

genre

Romance

review 1: Basically, a waste of time. Lame plot full of holes, two-dimensional characters, banal dialogues, awful prose, embarrassingly mawkish ending, confused message - if there is one, that is. Other reviewers before me have already discussed this book's shortcomings in greater detail, so there's no need to waste even more time. The sad thing is that this book was recommended to me in good faith by an enthusiastic friend, and I'll have a difficult time now trying to say something charitable about this romance manqué without embarrassing myself acutely. Sorry, but that's how it is.
review 2: This book was a fabulous read, written with intimacy and understanding of the characters and the effect the situation had on them. The book takes place in England in the midst of ... morethe second world war, and it relates how a young girl from London has been sent to Yorkshire by her mother to keep her safe from German attacks on the city. It details how she grows up in someone else's home with dozens of other children sent away, and in doing so it exposes the crumbling marriage of Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, the couple who owns the house Anna and the other kids are staying at. It is a beautiful portrayal of childhood and adolescence, as well as adult matters, and how they all eventually culminate in Anna. A must read! less

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