Motherland
A Abandoned, France, Cultural book. The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad....
You come from a long line of mistakes, Guy Caulder tells his daughter Alice. My mother married the wrong man. Her mother did the same.At the end of a love affair, Alice journeys to Normandy to meet Guy's mother, the grandmother she has never known. She tells her granddaughter that, in spite of the troubles her family has faced, there was one true love story in her past.In the summer of 1942, Kitty is an ATS driver stationed in Sussex. She meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Operations under the command of Louis Mountbatten. Kitty falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry.Mountbatten mounts a seaborne raid on the beaches of German-occupied Dieppe in northern France. One of the worst disasters of the war, it has a profound effect on both Larry and Ed, and its repercussions will echo through the generations to come.
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- Pages: 464 pages
- ISBN: 9781451687132 / 0
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The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad. William Nicholson, Motherland // It was wonderful, Eddy. It was perfect.''No,' he says. 'But it will be. William Nicholson, Motherland //
Nicholson hasn't ever let me down. Motherland for me is rather like a Neville Shute novel written in a modern style and phrasing. I pulled this book off the library shelf after my mother recommended a book by the name "Motherland" not knowing the author of suggested book, I grabbed all the available titles at my local library. I am glad I read this random (not the book my mother meant) copy. The story starts out slowly, we get to know the background characters... I should have known better than to read a book with a recommendation by the Daily Mail on the front cover, but wow. I've read some soulless paint-by-numbers books in my time, but this is possibly one of the dreariest. The following scene shows us how Larry reacts to his wife telling him his father has passed away. Please insert your...
