Love in a Time of War by Adrienne Chinn
Three sisters
The Great War
The end of innocence…
In 1913, in a
quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age,
dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers. But when
war erupts their innocence is shattered and a new era of uncertainty
begins.
Cecelia loves Max
but his soldier’s uniform is German, not British, and suddenly the
one man she loves is the one man she can’t have.
Jessie enlists in
the army as a nurse and finally finds the adventure she’s craved
when she’s sent to Gallipoli and Egypt, but it comes with an
unimaginable cost.
Etta elopes to
Capri with her Italian love, Carlo, but though her growing bump is
real, her marriage certificate is a lie.
As the three
sisters embark on journeys they never could have imagined, their
mother Christina worries about the harsh new realities they face, and
what their exposure to the wider world means for the secrets she’s
been keeping…
A
duel-time line novel visiting far-off lands...
On
the cusp of WWI, nineteen-year-old Celia Fry and her younger twin
sisters, Etta and Jessie, are young women who have very clear ideas
on how they want to live their lives. Living in comfortable means
with their parents, Christina and Gerald in Clover Bar, London, none
are prepared for the harsh realities of the impending Great War and
the locations it will lead them to.
The
title and the blurb drew me to this
enchanting novel, but it took some time and patience for me to fully
digest the initial introduction to all the characters. Once,
achieved, I fully embraced the narrative, as we not only follow the
Fry sisters but also the intriguing flashbacks from their mother's
point of view.
This
is the second novel I've read by this author and again, I am blown
away by the descriptive details of the various backdrops as these
determined young women face up to the realities of adulthood. I
appreciated how Ms. Chinn wrote the sisters so that their differing
personalities shone through as they embrace the suffrage movement in
their own individual way. It contrasts to how their mother is trying
to prevent her daughters from making the mistakes she did herself as
we learn about her life before she married Gerald.
As
you would expect from such a novel, it ends on a cliffhanger… and a
promise, leaving the reader craving for what could happen next?
Therefore, this first instalment of this evocative trilogy sets the
scene of what promises to be a truly memorable saga.
***arc
generously received courtesy of One More Chapter via NetGalley***
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Adrienne Chinn
was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, grew up in Quebec, and
eventually made her way to London, England after a career as a
journalist. In England she worked as a TV and film researcher before
embarking on a career as an interior designer, lecturer, and writer.
When not up a ladder or at the computer writing, she often can be
found rummaging through flea markets or haggling in the Marrakech
souk. Her second novel, The English Wife -- a timeslip story set in
World War II England and contemporary Newfoundland -- was published
in June 2020 and has become an international bestseller. Her debut
novel, The Lost Letter from Morocco, was published by Avon Books UK
in 2019. Her latest novel, Love in a Time of War, set during WWI, is
the first in a series of three books based around the changing lives
of three English sisters and their half-Italian mother, with a
timeslip to 1890s Capri and London.
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