After WWI , Helen and Henry find the safest, most delightful niche in the Riviera. Comfortably cocooned by wealth, they make it their Edwardian-style home, leading an ostrich-like existence with friends and family. WWII with all its horrors gradually intrudes and inevitably tragic reality catches up with them. A kind, sympathetic factional novel of those indulgent, easy years by Helen and Henry's grandson. Vivid, quiet writing.
(Joan Jackson - bwl 12 January 2002 ) |
