A review by riverwise
V for Victory by Lissa Evans

4.0

In this third of Lissa Evans’ loose trilogy we have moved on to 1944, and are offered a strong depiction of the London home front in last full year of the war, a city bearing a resigned but stoic acceptance. The story revolves a house in Hampstead that will be familiar to readers of the previous books, its landlady and her ward (ditto) and a new supporting cast of lodgers who are well drawn and provide some excellent colour. There is a sense of danger throughout, with death unexpectedly coming out of the sky and a smaller, more personal, calamity for Vee and Noel, but there is also humour and good companionship. The charm of Crooked Heart and Old Baggage is still here, and this is a fitting capstone to the trilogy (if indeed it is a trilogy - there are, not loose ends, but throughlines to future novels at the end of this one).