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Etta is the flighty one, a fledgling artist caught up with the Bloomsbury set, falling in love with artist Carlo and finding herself alone in Capri with a young child when the war tears him away. I’m keen to start up some writing/exploring retreats in Morocco in the future once things stabilise. I hope there is a book two so I can follow the girls on the next section of their lives, especially Celia and Frank in Canada and Jesse and Aziz in Egypt.
Celie, the eldest, works in the photography studio, is an ardent suffragist, and is in love with her German tutor, Max.The fact that the story is also set in various parts of the world also increased its interest and enjoyability. The book starts off slowly but it soon picks up pace and there are plenty of things to discovery on their journey. Adrienne does a fabulous job of portraying, through these three very different sisters, the spirit of all women who went on to forge new lives for themselves during and after this time of war.
Celie’s is the most obvious, becoming involved in organising marches for Millicent Fawcett’s National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies and, later, writing newspaper articles and taking photographs to publicise the vital contribution of women to the war effort, such as those working in munitions factories. This is a view of a prosperous middle-class family, though the plight of working-class women is glimpsed via Milly, the Fry’s maid of all work who leaves to work in a munitions factory, and Jessie’s nursing friend Ivy. Both my grandfather’s family, the Chinns, and my grandmother’s family, the Frys, had keen photographers amongst them — my great-grandfather Frederick Fry was a court photographer for Edward VII — and I had access to a lot of family photographs from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Her third novel, Love in a Time of War, the first in a series of four books centred around three English sisters, was published internationally by One More Chapter and Harper Collins in February 2022, with the second book in the series, The Paris Sister, following in February 2023. I thought the romance between Cecelia and Max was particularly well done because it showed that really England and Germany were close and cooperative before the war - no wonder these two characters fell in love. Towards the end there are number of coincidences which enable the tying up of loose ends, these felt awkward and abrupt. Thank you to Harper Collins and One More Chapter for the invitation to read this ebooks via NetGalley. Etta is the flighty, romantic artist in the family who falls in love with a dubious Italian artist and runs away to Italy with him.
Set against the backdrop of World War I, the young women soon realize outside forces will shape their choices. Her first, The Lost Letter, totally escaped my radar – her second, The English Wife, most certainly didn’t (it was impossible not to notice the wonderful reviews), but I just couldn’t fit it into my reading list. Her character is the epitome of determination, but she faces difficulty while trying to operate her own clinic.Cecelia shares her father's interest in photography but is in love with her teacher, a German, to the horror of her mother. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.
Following the lives of the Fry Sisters (Cecelia, Etta and Jessie) and how the war changed them as they find romance and love during the war. We also get the story of their mother as a young woman in flashbacks, and (or course) it ties in nicely with her daughters' lives. 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.Although the First World War provides the backdrop to many of the events in the book and transports the reader to a number of locations including Italy and Egypt, another constant element is the campaign for women’s suffrage. This fabulous read introduces the Fry sisters Cecelia and twins Jessie and Etta and the very different paths they take following the outbreak of world war 1. He was so clear in his teaching of the fundamentals of novel writing, and I really saw an improvement in my fiction writing. As might be expected from the first instalment in a trilogy, Love in a Time of War ends at significant moments in the lives of the sisters. A bohemian, she falls in love with a struggling artist, Carlos, and tries to juggle their secrets alone after he’s drafted for the army.
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