Love in a Time of War: The best new sweeping, escapist historical fiction book release of the year!: Book 1 (The Three Fry Sisters)

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The twins – Jessie and Etta – are a few years younger than Celie, but both have passions that define them. My mother said I was obsessed with pulling books off their bookshelves when I was a toddler and flipping through all the pages. While the transitions could have been a bit smoother between characters, it wasn’t a huge distraction. Etta is expecting a baby, but the marriage certificate she carries is not worth the paper it is printed on.

I thought all of their stories were worthy of exploring, as they really show how women’s lives were so greatly affected by the war. 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. Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for this ARC in exchange for my fair and honest review. He was so clear in his teaching of the fundamentals of novel writing, and I really saw an improvement in my fiction writing. I found this book very slow in the beginning and I wasn’t completely happy with the ending but the book is enjoyable to read.Interestingly, it is also a dual time narrative with flashbacks to the sisters mother, Christina, at the same age but in Italy where she grew up. For the most part each chapter covers one of the girls and Christina and while that could be confusing I felt it worked because of the different settings of Capri, England and Egypt. I began “The Lost Letter from Morocco” on that course, loosely inspired by my experiences in Morocco. In alternating chapters highlighting Christina and her three daughters, readers get a sense of history. She retraced her English father’s footsteps back to England, where she now lives and works as an interior designer.

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. While Jessie might have chosen a caring profession, she does it more out of ambition to see the world and not be confined to the role of the obedient wife and mother of the family. I’m keen to start up some writing/exploring retreats in Morocco in the future once things stabilise. I am assuming there will be other books in the series but for a book that long not a whole lot happened and the story could have been told just as effectively in half the number of pages.Love in a Time of War is the first book in a series of three, about the lives of three English sisters, Celie, Jessie and Etta Fry, during and just after the First World War. If you like slow moving long historical fiction novels with zero closure then this is the perfect book for you 😂😂😂.

but because it blazed new ground for those of us who believe provocative fiction is more than just an explicit cover. Whatever her motivation, it seems to have the opposite effect to that she intended as both Celie and Etta become involved in relationships with men who do not make ideal husband material in the eyes of Christina.Etta has always been the arty type, les restricted by formality and more prone to follow the path less travelled.