Advantages: A truly gripping read from start to end. Disadvantages: May cost you more than it did me!
I was more than lucky to bag such a bargain as the product I will now review, from one of the many sales that my local library holds.
Even the lady librarian was a little green when she saw my purchase, even going as far as to say she would have bought i ...
Advantages: very well written Disadvantages: not what you might expect.
I was expecting this to be an intelligently written second world war thriller. I was surprised by the degree to which this is not in fact a thriller novel. It is however, brilliantly devised and written and very much about the second world war.
The set ...
Advantages: Excellent sister book to Birdsong Disadvantages: A little slow starting
...Doing for the 2nd World War what he did for the 1st in "Birdsong", Sebastian Faulks presents a wonderful picture of life in France during the war years.
Charlotte Gray is sent to Occupied France to run an errand for an undercover special operations uni ...
Advantages: Opens the mind. Disadvantages: Very Long
Sebastian Faulks writes fiction novels that are set during world wars one and two. They are usually based on the experiance of a soldier and there is an element of romance. In charlote Gray and also Birdsong, Faulks seems to reach out and take you into th ...
Advantages: Interestng historical parts Disadvantages: Bit too romantic and slow early on
I read this book without reading Birdsong, so I can’t compare the two. I thoroughly enjoyed it though, and will try to read the earlier book. It was a gripping story, although hard to get into. I found it a bit too romantic at the beginning, and quite har ...
