Review: Excellent read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2012
I enjoyed this book immensely! We Americans did not feel the devastation of either the First or Second World Wars like the British did. Even today the man on the street in America has no concept of what the British went through during the Blitz. This book describes not just the war years but the social strata that was England. If there was a downside to this book it was trying to remember all the names of the children, their children and their children's children. The time period covered by this book covers nearly a century of British life during a time the world changed drastically and yet you don't get the sense that you are reading a history book rather you are reading the life story of someone who lived through those changes. My hat is off to Ms Gardner for a story well written that kept my interest from cover to cover.