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A review by maryelena07
La Golondrina y el Colibri by Santa Montefiore
4.0
When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a reassuring continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has come back a man, and a man irrevocably changed by the horrors that he has seen. Unable to settle back into the sleepy seaside village, George resolves to spend a year on the family farm in Argentina, and, despite her disappointment, Rita promises to wait for him. Rita keeps her promise. But for George there are irresistible temptations, and an agonising choice to make!
For me this book it's OK. I admit there were times I want to leave it and start reading something else, I find the beginning way to slow (for you to understand it starts in 1945 when George is 23 and ends when he is 48) and I never really was able to understand Rita and even sometimes George. For me the best caracther is Max an orfan boy from Austria who was adopted by Rita's grandmother and of course has been in love with rita ever since.
I bought this book because a big part of it settled in Argentina; George moves to Argentina after the war, gets married has a family and they live in Cordoba for 18 years until they come back to Devon. And for me, as someone who lives in Argentina, it was nice to read about places that I know like Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Mar del Plata. The feelings the autor use to describe Argentina are quite beautiful, you can see she has a deepest attachment to this country.
But it's still a sad book, a nice one but still sad, althought there is some kind of happy ending at the end. It's a book that really makes you think about life and the choice you make in it.
For me this book it's OK. I admit there were times I want to leave it and start reading something else, I find the beginning way to slow (for you to understand it starts in 1945 when George is 23 and ends when he is 48) and I never really was able to understand Rita and even sometimes George. For me the best caracther is Max an orfan boy from Austria who was adopted by Rita's grandmother and of course has been in love with rita ever since.
I bought this book because a big part of it settled in Argentina; George moves to Argentina after the war, gets married has a family and they live in Cordoba for 18 years until they come back to Devon. And for me, as someone who lives in Argentina, it was nice to read about places that I know like Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Mar del Plata. The feelings the autor use to describe Argentina are quite beautiful, you can see she has a deepest attachment to this country.
But it's still a sad book, a nice one but still sad, althought there is some kind of happy ending at the end. It's a book that really makes you think about life and the choice you make in it.