22 Britannia Road
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781611760033 (1611760038)
Publish date: April 28th 2011
Publisher: Penguin
Minutes: 323
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
War,
France,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Poland
I enjoyed reading this one. I rather liked the story, even though it’s dark and moody. The setting and the theme was well done and although Silvana and Janusz are supposed to be together, you can feel the detachment between the two of them because of the war. It changes everything and when they do g...
The authorAmanda Hodgkinson is a British writer and journalist who grew up in a small Essex fishing village before moving to Suffolk, and attending the University of East Anglia. She now lives and works in south west France with her husband Guy and their two daughters. For more information on Amanda...
Ex-AS-perating! Could have been so much more.The writing was actually decent enough that I could have given it three stars, but by the time I got to the end I was tearing my hair out in frustration at what she chose to include and what she chose to leave out of the story. I was left with a feeling o...
War changes you and whether that is for the better or not, you deal with it. This book took a different approach to war and had the reader dealing with the rekindling of a relationship that WW II tore apart. This marriage was strong before the war and after the war the relationship had secrets that...
This is a powerful and moving, but sad story about a family torn apart by war. The story moves back and forth in time (pre-WWII, during the war, and after the war), location (Poland, France, crossing the channel, and England) and between three characters – wife/mother, husband/father and child/son....
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