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kittiwakeWhile I question her taste, her judgement, her misplaced priorities, and her inappropriate sense of humour, she does indeed have one fine quality - she is honest. If she says she will honour the good name of your literary society, she will do so. I can say no more.
I read this for a book club, and was not in fact very keen on doing so, but the postscripts to the first two letters made me laugh which was a good start, and I did enjoy reading it. Throughout the book, humorous letters were interspersed between the sadder of the letters describing the German occupation of Guernsey, so there was never any risk of me crying on the train to work (it's always annoying when I am stuck on the train with a perfectly good book that I could be reading, but have had to put it back in my bag because I have reached a particularly sad point in the story).
There was one thing that I found unbelievable, and which kept breaking the spell of the book for me. The members of the literary society, having brought up Kit perfectly well for the past two years, basically just dump her on a virtual stranger who has only come to the island temporarily, and although Juliet is supposed to be spending her time in writing a book, she doesn't object at all about being expected to do all this child care. Most unlikely if you ask me.
I read this for a book club, and was not in fact very keen on doing so, but the postscripts to the first two letters made me laugh which was a good start, and I did enjoy reading it. Throughout the book, humorous letters were interspersed between the sadder of the letters describing the German occupation of Guernsey, so there was never any risk of me crying on the train to work (it's always annoying when I am stuck on the train with a perfectly good book that I could be reading, but have had to put it back in my bag because I have reached a particularly sad point in the story).
There was one thing that I found unbelievable, and which kept breaking the spell of the book for me. The members of the literary society, having brought up Kit perfectly well for the past two years, basically just dump her on a virtual stranger who has only come to the island temporarily, and although Juliet is supposed to be spending her time in writing a book, she doesn't object at all about being expected to do all this child care. Most unlikely if you ask me.
