She Goes to War

Pargeter, Edith

ISBN 10: 0708927173 / ISBN 13: 9780708927175

Published by Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: She Goes to War
• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708927173
• ISBN 13: 9780708927175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 639.6 grams

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Synopsis

From an author well-known as Ellis Peters. It is 1940 and Catherine Saxon is on her way to join the WRENS at its Quarters in Devonport. An impulse decision, it is to have undreamt of consequences. She quickly grows to love the Devon countryside, and so her posting to war-torn Liverpool comes as a shock. She soon acclimatises, and it is there that she meets Spanish Civil War veteran Tom Lyddon, who is to have a profound effect on her life. When Tom is recalled to active service, all Catherine can do is wait - and hope - for her lover's safe return.

From AudioFile

Readers of the Brother Cadfael series know Pargeter's insights into passion. In this elegiac, semi-autobiographical novel, she again shows this strength. Her narrator is of like quality. To say that Boyd masters Pargeter's sensibility and language is an understatement. She embodies the determination of the young Wren as she lives out WWII, expressing rueful sangfroid or raging protest. The epistilary format might have been unappealing, however suited to audio, but so committed is this presentation that we, ourselves, become the recipients of the letters. Their words of grim events in a grim time echo long after the tape is over. S.B.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine