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  • I found it hard to read the pages that went on and on about the Occupation, the experiences that people had to endure in that horrible time. But the parts that were not about the Occupation in England, I found those parts highly entertaining, charming, romantic, funny and spontaneous. The book is wr ... Continue

    I found it hard to read the pages that went on and on about the Occupation, the experiences that people had to endure in that horrible time. But the parts that were not about the Occupation in England, I found those parts highly entertaining, charming, romantic, funny and spontaneous. The book is written through corresponding mail between the characters. As I read the book I found myself falling in love with all this people, their simple lives and the beauty of the island.

    

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• ― VeraHuff said on Oct 24, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • I Really Didn't Want to Like This Book

  • It took me a bit to get into this book. I don't read much fiction, and it started out feeling a bit too "fluff" for my usual tastes. But soon I was hooked. It also shed light on an aspect of an historical era I thought I knew pretty well, but had never heard about the Nazi occupation of the Channel ... Continue

    It took me a bit to get into this book. I don't read much fiction, and it started out feeling a bit too "fluff" for my usual tastes. But soon I was hooked. It also shed light on an aspect of an historical era I thought I knew pretty well, but had never heard about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands. I've got to learn more about this . . .

    

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• ― SWReader said on Oct 17, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • Much of the novel is concerned with German occupation of a small English Channel island during WWII, and of the intertwined fates of islanders during the Holocaust, one of which is quite mysterious. Near the end, however, the novel's author evidently passed away, and her niece finished the story; pe ... Continue

    Much of the novel is concerned with German occupation of a small English Channel island during WWII, and of the intertwined fates of islanders during the Holocaust, one of which is quite mysterious. Near the end, however, the novel's author evidently passed away, and her niece finished the story; perhaps this explains why the story becomes more of a simple romance than the earlier portions of the story had been.

    

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• ― Rzmalchie said on Aug 30, 2009 | Add your feedback