A review by selket16
La biblioteca sull'oceano by Ashley Hay
4.0
Three people; a recent widow, a poet who can't write anymore and a doctor who's lost his social skills; become friends over the course of a year at the end of the 1940s as they all begin to heal from their pasts. Mixed in are scenes from the past, Annika, the widow's, dead husband always in the mix, ever present in her life.
This is a heartwarming tale of getting on with your life after war. Roy, the poet, and Frank, the doctor, are trying to find themselves while dealing with the guilt of surviving after all the death they saw in the war (WWII).
I don't describe it well, but it's a wonderful story, and, unfortunately, a timeless story. There will always be broken people returning from war and there will always be people having to deal with senseless and unexpected deaths that shouldn't have happened. Annika's husband didn't die in the war, the war had been over for years now. He died in a train accident; he just went to work one day and didn't come back.
This is a heartwarming tale of getting on with your life after war. Roy, the poet, and Frank, the doctor, are trying to find themselves while dealing with the guilt of surviving after all the death they saw in the war (WWII).
I don't describe it well, but it's a wonderful story, and, unfortunately, a timeless story. There will always be broken people returning from war and there will always be people having to deal with senseless and unexpected deaths that shouldn't have happened. Annika's husband didn't die in the war, the war had been over for years now. He died in a train accident; he just went to work one day and didn't come back.