A good bedtime read - a mix of romance, hardship and history - set in NW England in the 1890s onwards. A family loses the mother and as the father is an army doctor, the eldest daughter, with some help from a spinster aunt, has to take over. Reiman describes her life and how hard it was for women. When Papa goes off to the Boer War, Alice must sacrifice her own dreams - but when he returns everything changes for her . . .
(Shirley Williams - bwl 82 Autumn 2016 ) |
