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Family Drama / Adenture
WWII
England / France
Heronfield, the family home of the Kemshall
family, is temporarily a convalescent hospital during World War II, and it
forms the backdrop to an amazing read.
David is the family hero, an RAF
pilot who took part in the Battle of Britain. His brother, Tony, is a Dunkirk
survivor, but Tony has other battles than that of the war to contend with. His
father believes him a coward, he has to fight for the love of a woman, and all
the while to keep a very secret secret, well, secret. Tony is, in reality, a
British spy working in occupied France.
The novel is a big book, it spans six
years, with the paperback version making a hefty 400 pages. That can be a lot
of story to plough through – from Dunkirk to Liberation, via concentration
camps and the horrors and deprivations of war. But when the story is
engrossing, and the reader wants to know what happens next to intriguing family
members, who notices length?
I particularly liked the way some of
the chapters opened with News Slots, relating what was happening beyond
Heronfield. Cleverly done, Ms Balchin.
@ Helen Hollick
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