maplessence's review
4.0
I'm so glad I didn't give up on this book!
I so nearly did, as up till around page 80 this book was slow moving & dull. But WWII was still a recent enough memory (this book written in 1947)for Frances Parkinson Keyes to write with carefully crafted passion about how much American born Constance & her aristocratic French family suffered & lost. I can't remember another book that brings an occupancy so well to life.
I have read Parkinson Keyes before (she was a great favourite of my late parents) & Constance is very typical of her heroines - a woman of strong courage & principles & blessed with great personal charm.
So damn that beginning! It was bad enough to reduce my rating to 4*
I so nearly did, as up till around page 80 this book was slow moving & dull. But WWII was still a recent enough memory (this book written in 1947)for Frances Parkinson Keyes to write with carefully crafted passion about how much American born Constance & her aristocratic French family suffered & lost. I can't remember another book that brings an occupancy so well to life.
I have read Parkinson Keyes before (she was a great favourite of my late parents) & Constance is very typical of her heroines - a woman of strong courage & principles & blessed with great personal charm.
So damn that beginning! It was bad enough to reduce my rating to 4*
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