Review: I liked this book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2014
I don't think it is that unusual for a book to go back and forth in time, although that seems to have thrown some readers off. Basically a British officer and physician, Dr. Guy Parrot, is in Italy at the end of WWII. He is instructed to set up a hospital near the American zone. The plot twist is that the building is exactly where he stayed one summer about fifteen years prior with a group of acquaintances. The plot thickens with many references to the time that the poets Byron and Shelley spent in that same area--just prior to Shelley's death.  There is a strange dynamic and unusual things that happen among the group. I don't want to spoil anything and say more. I think the story is intriguing, and the glimpses into life in 1930 and 1945 are fascinating historically. It is definitely a book worth reading if you like mystery and history!