My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

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Her first book was A Great Task of Happiness (1995), the life of Kathleen Bruce, her grandmother, the sculptor and wife of Scott of the Antarctic. Is there something about the fact that no one is left alive to tell -- or criticize the veracity of -- the tale that has led to a recent flourishing (to the already robust genre) of trench literature, usually somehow connected to a story of the folks at home, maybe poets, maybe artsy? The advance copy that I was given had a statement that proclaimed that the book was the most powerful book that I would read all year.

Still though, any novel that can still make you feel the pain and horror of hte trenches (or rather, imagine you can), and the visceral exhaustion and suffering of the nurses who also served (one passage where Young describes nursing conditions of "8 days on the trot underwear", fleas, and cold water washing really hit home), while also being genuinely entertaining, is worth reading. Working class Riley Purefoy and posh, aristocratic Nadine Waveney meet as children and become friends when Riley’s brains, talent and personality lead him to work in the household of a rich artist.The lives of two very different couples—an officer and his aristocratic wife, and a young soldier and his childhood sweetheart—are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stunning World War I epic of love and war. I rushed through the last 200 pages so enraptured with each character with their flaws not Always predictable. I wouldnt say this novel set me alight, but I did find it a brilliant read, and the closer I got to the end, I struggled more and more to put it down! Sur fond de drame historique et de romance impossible, l'auteur dépeint tant la société anglaise au temps de la première guerre mondiale que les motivations qui poussaient tant de jeunes hommes de se lancer au combat. Moving among Ypres, London, and Paris, this emotionally rich and evocative novel is both a powerful exploration of the lasting effects of war on those who fight—and those who don't—and a poignant testament to the power of enduring love.

In plain English, this means that I may receive a small commission (at no cost to you) if you purchase something through the links provided. I felt like you really got a good sense of who she was and her thoughts and her feelings, which made it much easier to connect with her.It took me a while to sink into the plot and the characters, but once I did they appeared in my thoughts when I put the novel down and although I enjoyed this novel and thought about it when I wasn’t reading it, I felt it could have been much more captivating. All main characters get their share of attention and so the reader is able to see the war and its effects from different perspectives. And yet My Dear I Wanted to Tell You also attempts to be a romance book, and there precisely it comes to a screeching halt. Peter Locke, Rileys voormalige kolonel, is geestelijk getraumatiseerd teruggekeerd naar Locke Hill in Kent. Did a couple of interesting things, was appropriately gruesome, interesting characters, and some facinating detail about an aspect of the war which I had not previously considered.