by Elizabeth Speller
Shell shock. Battle fatigue. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Society seems to have only started to take the condition seriously within the last few years. In Laurence Bartram’s time, just after the first World War, it was just considered weakness and cowardice and nerves. After the war, Laurence, li...
Should be nearer 4 stars - so frustrating only having 5 stars to choose from..... Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Very well written. Complicated but the author did such a good job of steering me through the complications I didn't need to do a flow chart as I do with many books. Took a long time wrappi...
It is just after WWI, when Captain John Emmett returns home to his family, and finds he cannot adjust to his life. The tragedy of events that he witnessed, during the war, have severely damaged his psyche. After an assault arrest, he is sent to a nursing home where it is hoped he will get well. Laur...
Two years after the end of the Great War, Laurence Bartram, an officer traumatized by his experience of a modern battlefield, is trying unsuccessfully to rebuild his life when he is approached by Mary, a childhood acquaintance who is trying to understand the suicide of her brother.Bartram's investig...
Just started this book and although I am only 20 pages in and some might find it a bit of slow-starter, I am enjoying this work.Gave up forty pages later. The enjoyable slow start turned into complete and utter drudgery.Do not recommend.
This author, especially as a debut author, had a spectacular manner in which she introduced the readers to the characters in the story, even a dead character. I thoroughly have enjoyed reading this debut novel and unraveling the mystery.
Rather disappointing overall.http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/08/review-return-of-captain-john-emmett-by.html
I am shamefully behind on my Mary Russells. I've been faithfully buying them in hardcover as I wish to do my part in keeping the author well fed, but with the addition of Pirate King this September, I will be three books behind. I'm starting to find myself daunted enough that inertia is threatening ...
A rich, literate, British mystery that was immensely enjoyable to read. I looked forward in anticipation to returning to the story, handled deftly by the author. Part puzzle, part examination of an unfortunate consequence of war, the novel illuminates a less well-known aspect of the horrors of the b...
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