Kitty and Jenny sit at home, awaiting the end of the war and the return of Chris, Kitty’s husband and Jenny’s cousin. However he returns to them sooner, suffering amnesia from shell-shock. He can remember Jenny and Margaret, his first love, but has no recollection of Kitty. Between the women they ha...
I read about 400 pages, which is not "half" but it was enough for me to get the idea that this book was primarily about how Rebecca West wants the world to be - interspersed with some really beautiful, atmospheric descriptions of landscape and city. I wanted to hear from the people in these cities b...
I read about 400 pages, which is not "half" but it was enough for me to get the idea that this book was primarily about how Rebecca West wants the world to be - interspersed with some really beautiful, atmospheric descriptions of landscape and city. I wanted to hear from the people in these cities b...
Während des 1. Weltkriegs halten Jenny und Kitty Baldry das Landgut der Familie auf Vordermann. Alles soll perfekt sein, wenn Kittys Ehemann Chris, der Herr des Hauses, von der Front aus Frankreich zurückkommt. Doch dann erhalten sie die Nachricht, dass der geliebte Ehemann und Cousin einen Granaten...
Please note that I gave this book 4.5 stars, but rounded it up to 5 stars on Goodreads.I read this story for The Dead Writers Society, 2016 Genre Fiction August 2016 book. This story is (expletive) up. Seriously. You have a husband and wife separated by World War I. The husband's cousin is living wi...
Lost chances and missed opportunities, resignation, change, war, suppression and oppression are among the themes surrounding West’s novel. For such a short novel, it is heavy. The heaviness is pervasive and there is no sense of reprieve for any of the characters. The novel’s narrator does begin her ...
The Return of the Soldier is an interesting read for several reasons, not least because it is a female authored book about the very male topic of the shell shock that often resulted from World War One. It's stylistic, and overly simplistic in places, and yet despite this it is extremely effective in...
We should all be reading more Rebecca West - she just writes like a dream. I'm amazed at how she managed to make this so subtle and complex and beautiful.
We should all be reading more Rebecca West - she just writes like a dream. I'm amazed at how she managed to make this so subtle and complex and beautiful.
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