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Small Wars (2009)

by Sadie Jones(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307398536 (ISBN13: 9780307398536)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Knopf Canada

review 1: I love everything by Sadie Jones. She builds tension inexorably and her prose is stunningly beautiful. I had a hard time starting this book because of the war topic and the terrible sadness I thought that implies. There is that but it's not the central focus. I found myself strongly rooting for the main characters and Jones did it again - about one-third into the book I couldn't stop reading! The protagonists are major Hal Treherne and his young wife Clara. Hal is stationed in the 1950's Cyprus Conflict and they set up house in a military base. Hal is a quiet man of honor who gets crushed by his conscience in what he has to witness. The tender love between him and Clara is stressed to the point of fracture and bit by bit, Jones shows us how the war in Cyprus infiltrates ev... moreery part of the couple's lives and changes who they are. When terror hits closest to home, the crisis culminates and painful decisions are made that could change everything.
review 2: A contemplation of young love, young dreams and a dedication to country with high ideals, all of which begin to crumble with the reality of "small wars". A young married couple move to Syria during the British occupation with their two twin girls, determined to make the best of the situation into which they have been thrown, but cracks begin to appear in their relationship, the disappointments of morals and ideals of soldiering and the relative futility of occupation of another's country. less

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