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Cargando... The Care and Management of Liespor Jacqueline Winspear
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Historical fiction set during. WWI. I love Mausie Dobbs. Didn't like this as well. I found the ending unsatisfying. ( ) Not a Maisie Dobbs novel, this historical fiction is the story of England before and during World War I, and the affects it had on two young women. At the outset, Kezia is a parson's daughter about to get married to Tom, a farmer who is her best friend Thea's brother. Each changes dramatically during the course of the novel: Thea becomes a devoted farmer's wife; Thea changes from a radical pacifist to an ambulance driver in the trenches; and Tom changes from being a farmer to being a soldier in France. There's romance, friendship, envy, loyalty, against a backdrop of the horrible toll of war. If you're looking for a happy resolution, this isn't for you. (Fiction, Historical, WWI) Two women have been friends since childhood. Now adults, one marries the brother of the other and moves to the family farm. War erupts and Tom enlists, and it falls to Kezia to run the farm, without much help because all the other young men are also enlisting. Interesting in that regard, but otherwise unmemorable and too easily tied up at the end. 3½ stars sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom's fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream world of Kezia's mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face to face with the enemy?" -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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