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Lying With The Enemy (1999)

by Tim Binding(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0786706570 (ISBN13: 9780786706570)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Carroll & Graf Publishers

review 1: Very interesting and well written. As someone else pointed out, it's much darker than the Guernsey Potato Peel Society (or whatever that title was) giving a much more closer read on the interactions between the occupiers and, especially (given the title) the, women of the island. Add in a bombing plot, a sympathetic German, former romances between island men and women now involved with the Germans and it is an engaging read.It was here in our beach rental, not a new book. Dates back to 1998. But a nice read. The cover is actually a photo described in the book with the woman being the murder victim.
review 2: Ever since reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Soldier's Wife, I have been intrigued by the story of this Guernsey Isla... morend's occupation by the German forces during the Second World War. I have a difficult time rating this one - at times I was ready to quit reading it altogether, but I did stick with it. This book is much darker than either of the previously mentioned books. Perhaps it is a more accurate depiction of what might happen to people living under the stress and deprivation that was visited upon the Guernsey Islanders during that horrific time. I found writing a bit scattered as it's viewpoint would swing between the various Islanders as well as several of the officers in the invading army. There is not much heroism displayed - mostly people doing whatever it was they felt they needed to do to survive. And that was often grim. Ultimatley, however scattered, sometimes tedious and often vague the writing is, there are so many passages that are completely brilliant. less

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