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| Original Title: | War Brides |
| ISBN: | 0141027126 (ISBN13: 9780141027128) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Helen Bryan
Paperback | Pages: 467 pages Rating: 3.79 | 40865 Users | 3449 Reviews
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| Title | : | War Brides |
| Author | : | Helen Bryan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 467 pages |
| Published | : | June 28th 2007 by Penguin Books |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. World War II. Romance |
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With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge an unlikely bond of friendship that will change their lives forever.Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangeline's arrival causes a stir in the village, but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival is Tanni Zayman, a young Jewish girl who fled the horrors of Europe and now waits with her newborn son, certain that the rest of her family is safe and bound to show up any day. And then there's Frances Falconleigh, a madcap, fearless debutante whose father is determined to keep her in the countryside and out of the papers.
As the war and its relentless hardships intensify around them, the same struggles that threaten to rip apart their lives also bring the five closer together. They draw strength from one another to defeat formidable enemies - hunger, falling bombs, the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, and a traitor in their midst - and find remarkable strength within themselves to help their friends. Theirs is a war-forged loyalty that will outlast the fiercest battle and endure years and distance.
When four of the women return to Crowmarsh Priors for a VE Day celebration fifty years later, television cameras focus on the heartwarming story of these old women as war brides of a bygone age, but miss the more newsworthy angle. The women's mission is not to commemorate or remember - they've returned to settle a score and avenge one of their own.
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Ratings: 3.79 From 40865 Users | 3449 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books War Brides
The setting (a small English town), the Era (WWII) and 5 women of different backgrounds (and cultures) coming together out of necessity and circumstance sounded like something I would love. And for a while, that was the case. I did like reading about the wartime economies and hardships. Further, I appreciated the strength and ingenuity of each woman to find her own niche in terms of contributing toward the common welfare of the town and/or her friends.I overlooked some of the grammar and otherI waited awhile for the book to get going and once it finally did and I was really hooked in, wanting to read more, the story ubruptly stopped! The characters were finally developed, but then suddenly all forward momentum in the story stopped and things were explained to Alice in a phone call (the death of the elder DeBalfort/burning down of his home and Frances disappearing). Talk about missing out on all the action! It was almost as if the author decided she had written enough and needed to
I honestly thought this was one of the best books I have read ever. Yes I thought that it ended too quickly, but I loved it all the same. (Plus I think I am an idealist and a definate sucker for a happy ending) I liked the way that the beginning set the scene really well and got you intrigued. I felt desperately sorry for Evangeline when she was in New Orleans, but always knew Laurent couldn't be trusted either. I felt so bad for Tanni but would have been happier if her sisters had eventually
I cannot understand why this has a 4.5 star aggregate on Amazon! The writing in the beginning is a series of mean-spirited infodumps, all of them poorly constructed. Several times I stopped in my tracks, puzzling over a sentence where the writer meant one thing but conveyed another. "They spent hours playing in the garden on sunny days and in the cellar where Richard's father kept the wine when it rained." Me: I've never heard of anyone moving their wine when it rains. That seems odd...oh. Wait.
Not normally a book I'd think to read, War Brides turned up atop my Kindle recommended list and, as I'd yet to borrow a book for July, I figured, what the heck?And a very nice story it is, too. War Brides tells the story of five young women sent off to the tiny town of Crowmarsh Priors in southeastern England during the Blitz of WWII. Mostly, there's drama around making ends meet, the fate of children, boyfriends, and husbands and family abroad. The spice comes from the fact that there's a spy
Pros of this book: interesting reading about World War II, Hitler, Germans, and a glimpse into what it was like for the people who weren't fighting the war, just trying to live through it. Some of the women's romances were lovely, and the descriptions of the outfits, food, houses were wonderful as well.Cons: it takes a WHILE to get to the actual meat of the story. I get that the author has to explain the back story behind how all these women meet and become friends, but I was struggling to stay
I cannot understand why this has a 4.5 star aggregate on Amazon! The writing in the beginning is a series of mean-spirited infodumps, all of them poorly constructed. Several times I stopped in my tracks, puzzling over a sentence where the writer meant one thing but conveyed another. "They spent hours playing in the garden on sunny days and in the cellar where Richard's father kept the wine when it rained." Me: I've never heard of anyone moving their wine when it rains. That seems odd...oh. Wait.
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