Yes, I’ve read another World War II novel. When I read the blurb (I had to look that term up) for this book, I was very intrigued. I find it interesting how people meet, interact and form different types of relationships. It can be something very simple that builds up to something complex.
In this book, the three characters are from very different walks of life. A bookstore owner, a young teenage boy living in an impoverished part of London and an older teenage girl from a well-off family. While living in London during the Blitz, these strangers encounter each other and form a very interesting relationship of sorts. This happens while dealing with personal tragedies as a result of the war and other circumstances.
David Baldacci provides a vivid description of the people in this book and what they must go through to survive. The journey from beginning to end held my attention and I was almost sad when the story was over. For this reason, I would highly recommend this book. (That shouldn’t come as a surprise, I only review books that I really enjoy. I suppose someday I will review a book I really hated, but that day hasn’t come yet.)
Some quotes I had to save from the book:
- “What else does one do with books besides read them and then wonder about what one has just read? And, even more pleasurably, what one will read next?”
- “Sometimes it simply comes down to the serendipity of whom one meets and when.”
- “We all need someone at certain times in our lives. It makes the inevitable pain lessened and the periods of happiness exalted.”
