Jennifer Robson
Jennifer Robson first learned about the Great War from her father, acclaimed historian Stuart Robson, and later served as an official guide at the Canadian National War Memorial at Vimy Ridge, France. A former copy editor, she holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from the...
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Jennifer Robson first learned about the Great War from her father, acclaimed historian Stuart Robson, and later served as an official guide at the Canadian National War Memorial at Vimy Ridge, France. A former copy editor, she holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from the University of Oxford. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and young children. This is her first novel.
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On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month . . .November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and the world is forever changed. For soldiers, loved ones, and survivors, the years ahead stretch with new promise, even as their hearts are ma...
As is the fashion, this novel has chronologically separate narrative streams told in alternating chapters. In this case, the author has varied the pattern slightly by having none of the streams in the first person, and by giving separate chapters to two main characters who are in the same time perio...
THE GOWN by Jennifer Robson The intimate details of every day life in 1947 England, still suffering from the austerity required by the devastation of WWII, are clearly rendered in the lives of two embroiderers working on Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown. One woman will become world famous, the othe...
I just finished an ARC of After the War is Over, a work very much in the vein of Charles Todd's Bess Crawford series. For me, this book ranks somewhere between three and four stars.WHAT I LIKE: I like the characters, and the storyline is comfortable. Some characters are well developed. I am thankful...
"GOODNIGHT FROM LONDON" is a tender-hearted, at turns adventurous and perilous account of the experiences of a young American journalist, Ruby Sutton, who is given the opportunity from her employer to undertake an assignment in Britain during the summer of 1940 to provide both American and British r...
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