Review: Love among the ruins
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2011
As always, Linda Gillard takes the facts of her character's shattered lives and makes them fascinating and entertaining.  There are as many casualties of war away from a battlefield as on it including relationships and marriage.  Fay and Magnus loved each other deeply and still do, however, although he left the war, the battlefield and it's attendant horrors still remained in Magnus and so Fay left the marriage in desperation to retain her sanity.  Now that that time and distance have allowed her some peace and healing, Fay begins to think that perhaps a love like theirs was too precious to let go.Linda Gillard has once again created a story that will draw readers in and makes them care very much about the characters and what happens to them.  Although this subject has grim aspects, Linda always finds a way to take away the sting with humor and that dry British wit that saves the story from being too dark and sad.  It's nice to have a heroine who has some mileage on her and who exemplifies the idea that life actually gets better after forty.