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Petites Recettes De Bonheur Pour Les Temps Difficiles (2014)

by Suzanne Hayes(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Belfond

series

I'll Be Seeing You

review 1: My curiosity got the better of me: I needed to read the first novel of this writing partnership. Their literary device is the letter writing between two strangers during WWII, a 20+ year old young mother, Glory, in Rockport, Massachusetts and 40+ year old, Rita, in Iowa City, Iowa. While the developing friendship is engaging and their stories reflect the courage women demonstrated their isolation, the characters are flat and the writing, conventional.
review 2: I was drawn into this story by the emotional warmth of the two women who corresponded by mail during World War II. Matched as pen pals, Glory, the Massachusetts mother of two young children, begins corresponding with Rita, a woman twenty years older in Iowa. They were both worried about the military ... moremen they loved--Glory's husband and Rita's husband and son. The two women laugh and cry, ask advice, and offer emotional support. Women in their hometowns grouped together to roll bandages, knit socks, talk about women's rights, and serve refreshments to soldiers. Some women took over the jobs left vacant by the men joining the military. Rita and Glory both grew victory gardens, and added sunflowers for some emotional sunshine. There were days when they were overcome with fear for their men, and people dreaded the sight of the telegraph delivery boy walking up their street. Temptations also existed for the lonely women with their husbands far away. Some women with German heritages also had to worry about others looking down on them with disrespect.The two authors of this book have never met, and wrote the first draft of the book together by e-mail correspondence. Suzanne Hayes wrote the letters from Glory and her Massachusetts family, as well as some poetry. Loretta Nylan wrote the correspondence from Rita and her family and Iowa friends. The early letters come across as genuine letters. By the end of the book, quite a bit of dialogue was included in the letters, giving the book a more intimate feeling. "I'll Be Seeing You" tells about hardship and friendship. The engaging characters, and interesting home front history kept me reading late into the night.Since rationing was in effect during World War II, book clubs might find it fun to use one of the wartime recipes for refreshments at their meetings. Sugar was rationed so molasses, honey, maple syrup, and corn syrup were substituted in the recipes for baked goods. less

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