Charlotte Bingham.
Charlotte was born in Haywards Heath , her actual memories was not particularly there in West Sussex but at her grandparents home in Ireland where she was taken to by her Nanny when she was about three it was Bangor Castle in North Ireland. So this was where she had ... Read review
Twistleton is a village untouched by time, taking its rhythms from the countryside around. ... more
Daisy, Jean, Freddie and their friends Aurelia and Laura are devoted to the place, so that when war breaks out Twistleton becomes the embodiment of everything for which they are fighting. For the previous generation the new conflict causes private despair, increased when Twistleton is requisitioned by the Army.
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Charlotte Bingham.
Charlotte was born in Haywards Heath , her actual memories was not particularly there in West Sussex but at her grandparents home in Ireland where she was taken to by her Nanny when she was about three it was Bangor Castle in North Ireland. So this was where she had remembered mostly and also the influence of several of her novels where there settings were in large country houses.
Her schooling was ... ...This was the start of Charlotte as a writer of plays and novels and she still writes today thirty years later and her novels have been published all round the world.
Her style of writing appeals to all types of women and I am certainly enjoying her books and like the way she writes which is very easy to read and descriptive in parts particularly when she is describing things it makes you part of the story. The characters I could warm to and ... more
Charlotte Bingham.
Charlotte was born in Haywards Heath , her actual memories was not particularly there in West Sussex but at her grandparents home in Ireland where she was taken to by her Nanny when she was about three it was Bangor Castle in North Ireland. So this was where she had remembered mostly and also the influence of several of her novels where there settings were in large country houses.
Her schooling was first of all in London then to a small school where she was born from the age of 6-16 years of age which was in the Sussex Downs which became an important part of her life particularly as she found she loved the sea and several of her books included the sea as well as the countryside.
When she was sixteen she went to Paris and stayed on the Left Bank with a French family who were French aristocrats to learn the French language and to speak it correctly. The left Bank in Paris was very well known for the place to be where there street markets and winding streets and alleys prove to be great excitement to a sixteen girl who has spent several years in a boarding school . She would spend her time in restaurants which were family run and in student cafés, always carrying a book with poetry which she had written hoping that one day she would be able to get them published as there was no problem in publishing them as both of her parents were writers.
Charlotte's first story was when she was only ten years of age and it was called "Deaths Ticket" this was a thriller. After this story she wrote other stories for women.
She was discovered as a writer when she was nineteen and three quarters by a literary agent and it was something like what call as a "fairy tale". She was celebrating in the bar of the Ritz's in finishing her story titled "Coronet among the weeds". The man who was a literary agent was surprised as this was not really the place for a young lady. He also knew her parents so he never told them but warned her of such celebrations and took her finished manuscript away with him to read in his house in the country. He after reading it said he could get it published and sold it to the publishers Heinemann. This was the start of Charlotte as a writer of plays and novels and she still writes today thirty years later and her novels have been published all round the world. Her style of writing appeals to all types of women and I am certainly enjoying her books and like the way she writes which is very easy to read and descriptive in parts particularly when she is describing things it makes you part of the story. The characters I could warm to and enjoy reading about them and to see how they develop into the stories. Charlotte has a very clever way of inter weaving her characters and the story plots. I have certainly enjoyed her novels and have enjoyed reading about her life.
Advantages: A heartwrenching and fantastic read. Disadvantages: Didn't flow as well until after she was adopted.
After reading what seems to me, every vampire book available at present I was grateful for my work colleague Lyn?s ?lend?, a book that she stated as being an ?easy read?, and not a blood sucker insight!
The book I will now review is - ?Grand affair by CharlotteBingham?
The story starts with a tragic scene, in a dilapidated little bedsit a young woman has just died in childbirth. Attending the scene is a midwife who is devastated at the idea that a woman would die in her area and on her shift and also a doctor who has been called to assist with the death certificate.
After much deliberation it is decided that the baby, a little girl who appears to be fading fast, should be left with the local areas ?Mrs Mac?, an Irish lady who has designated herself the mother of the slums, and who has always got a crust of bread or a cup ...
Advantages: Something to read Disadvantages: Not up to standard
Being a big CharlotteBingham fan usually, this book was a great disappointment. The book was slow and, actually, quite boring. A lot of the time it felt like listening to someone's grandfather reminiscing with the constant repetition of the phrases 'during the war' and 'before the war'! This became very annoying very quickly.
The war in question is the 2nd World War, and the story starts with 3 evacuees being adoted by 2 ladies who become known as their 'aunts'. The children are split up and go their separate ways, only to meet up again once they are older. We follow their stories individually until they do meet.
I didn't feel there was a great amount of depth to the characters or their relationships, something was missing which meant I could not get involved with them as I normally like to.
Likewise, the story plodded along ...
Advantages: Pleasant, good characters, well written, satisfactory ending Disadvantages: Some incongruencies, too many characters
'The Moon at Midnight' is set in the 1960s, and starts by introducing the various families involved in the book, at the time of the Cuban crisis. The families all live in a British fishing port called Bexham. I was two at the time of the crisis, so don't have any memory of this, but the tension in everyone's minds becomes vividly clear at the beginning of the book, as we see the different ways that people are dealing with the possibility of another world war.
CharlotteBingham has quite a gift with characters - she creates mostly realistic individuals, and clearly knows them well. She writes about them as if she's personally acquainted with them; at one point I wondered if some of them were even based on real people. However the problem with having such a good background in an author's mind is that it can be overwhelming ...
