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...
I won this anthology at the Smart Bitches Recommendation Party at RT con earlier this year and have been waiting patiently for November to come so I could read this. 1. Daughter of Belguim by Marci Jefferson - 3.5 stars Content warning: the beginning of the story deals with the rape of a teen ...
Ms. Robson historical fiction was inspired by the memoirs of her grandmother Myra Moir, a reporter, who worked on the women’s pages of the News-Herald. The author in her latest will transport us to London in the midst of the Blitzkrieg.1940, American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break and mov...
On the face of it, "MOONLIGHT OVER PARIS" can be seen as a continuation of Jennifer Robson's 2 previous historical novels: (1) 'Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War'; and (2) 'After the War is Over'. Yet, it can also be regarded as a stand alone novel for anyone who comes to it without havi...
Fall of Poppies: Stories Of Love And The Great War***I won this book from Library Thing as part of the Early Reviewers program. It is a book of short stories which take place during WWI. It covers the impact of Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, on the troops of and the families awaiting the return o...
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