Review: A different point of view
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2013
Life was grim in a prewar North England village. Kindness was not the norm and class distinctions created impenetrable layers. The author captured those aspects well.  The violence meted out to those who did not agree or fit with conventional thought was extreme and made for hard reading but the underlying romance helped lighten the story.There were times when I wondered where the book was leading especially about a third of the way through. But the author's treatment of the pacifists was excellent.It is a refreshing change to come across a book written not about the heroes and glorificatin of war but about those who fought against the need for war at all.overall a good story worth reading