This excellent review has flagged yet another book for my attention – so I thought I’d reblog it so you could also read it…
Historical Fiction
5*’s
The most apt word I can think of to describe this book is sumptuous! This is a book to delight the reader with the layers of detail which build a picture of a household in London in the 1920’s. Mrs Wray and her daughter Frances found themselves struggling to make ends meet after the loss of the men during World War I and the solution is to take in some paying guests, their gentrified term for lodgers. With the household rejigged to make space for a couple of rooms the day arrives for Leonard and Lillian Barber to move in. Lily sets about decorating her rooms in her own style while Leonard works away at his job at an insurance company and the household begins to adapt to the new routine. The Wrays meanwhile remain suspended in the disagreeable place between accepting and despising the changes the…
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Ah thank you – I definitely recommend this book, it has something for everyone and really sucks you into not only the story but the time period.
You’re very welcome:) A solidly good review of an intriguing book always deserves to be read!
I am so glad you enjoyed this …definitely one of my books of 2014