Review: A Great Ending To A Great Series...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2012
Immediately after finishing Grace's Story I started in on Isobel's. Grace's Story left a lot of unanswered questions, but they were all answered here in Isobel's tale. Once again the story takes place 24 years after her mother's, in 1938. England is once again on the brink of war, and Jewish refugees from Germany are trying to make their way into England where they'll be safe.This book was just as entertaining as the previous two, but with a little more reality to it. Andreas, a young man who has escaped Germany alone, without his mother, tells Izzie about the horrible treatment the Jews are receiving by Hitler and his men. It's such a sad story, and it took me a little longer to get through this book because of it. I make it a point to avoid books about the Holocaust and the horrific treatment of the Jews because it's so unbelievably horrible. I was initially turned off by this, but Ms. Walters tells it in a way that gets the point across without bringing down the whole story.In the months Isobel spends a Swallowcliffe she (like her Mother and Grandmother before her) does a lot of growing up and becomes a better person because of her experience there. We also see that just because you're a member of the peerage with a title and a large estate, doesn't mean you're happy. Personally, between the titled family, or the servants 'below stairs', I'd take being a servant any day. Great series, and I highly recommend it. So glad I accidentally stumbled upon it!