Re-reading this book I realised no one had reviewed it, perhaps because it was published before we began. Set in France before and during WW I, it ranks amongst the best novels about the so-called Great War with an immensely moving and erotic love story at its centre. Real flesh and blood characters endure all the horrors of war within the confines of conventions that must be followed, social positions observed. Not to be missed.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 43 December 2007 ) |
