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Love in a Time of War: The best new sweeping, escapist historical fiction book release of the year!: Book 1 (The Three Fry Sisters)

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I eagerly await book 2 set in the 20s and 30s to be published in late Spring of 2022 and book 3 set in WW2 to the 70s to be published in Spring of 2023. There is a certain Chekhovian theme, of a conflict between illusions, dreams and reality, which could be traced through the storylines of all Fry women (mother and daughters). She is carefree and artless, and falls head over heels with a dashing young aristocrat Harry Grenville. I love the way in which Adrienne made me feel as though I was part of the story and at the heart of the action. She retraced her English father’s footsteps back to England, where she now lives and works as an interior designer.

My thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for the invitation and support, and to the publishers for my advance reading e-copy (provided via netgalley). In 1913, in a quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age, dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers.I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, I did find the story a little slow to start with and Adrienne Chinn skillfully picked up the narratives pace. When the war breaks out, Jessie's sent overseas, and she’s nurse’s patients on a hospital ship during the Gallipoli campaign. Book one begins just prior to the commencement of World War I when women’s lives were on the brink of incredible change.

It contrasts to how their mother is trying to prevent her daughters from making the mistakes she did herself as we learn about her life before she married Gerald. Cecelia becomes a photographer and journalist writing of the dangerous work being done by women as the men were away fighting.Cecelia shares her father's interest in photography but is in love with her teacher, a German, to the horror of her mother. I began scrolling and reading — they apologised for the delay getting back … they received so many submissions … but, they’d all read the book and loved it and wanted to offer me a 2-book deal!

Jessie has always craved adventure and excitement and it looks like her wish has come true when she enlists as a nurse with the army and is sent all the way to Galipoli in Egypt. Etta is expecting a baby, but the marriage certificate she carries is not worth the paper it is printed on. Etta and Carlos are living together in Naples, and Carlos joins the second army thirteenth infantry division and a pregnant Etta goes to stay with her mother’s cousin Stefania in Capri. Eventually she's working as a theatre nurse at the General Hospital in Alexandria in Egypt, here Jessie meets Doctor Aziz Khalid, she has to keep reminding herself that she wants to remain single and stay dedicated to her career.There is, of course, romantic relationships - one Italian and one German - which makes for next level problems given the world situation of the time. Her second novel, The English Wife -- a timeslip story set in World War II England and contemporary Newfoundland -- was published in June 2020 and has become an international bestseller. My grandmother, Edith Adelaide Fry Chinn, emigrated to Alberta, Canada with her British Army veteran husband and her two very small children in 1922 and never saw her English family again. And the story-telling really is tremendous – the three sisters are distinct and well-drawn characters, and the author wraps their stories around each other in a way that is a real pleasure to read.

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