Castle on the Hill [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Goudge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1983

It is the summer of 1940 and England is fighting for her life. In a rural corner of England the vagaries of war bring together a group of people wrestling the enemy within--fear, despair, loss of faith.

This is Elizabeth Goudge at her best. In this compelling drama of human trial and triumph, she takes us from London air raids to country sunsets and weaves a story of courage and understanding from the threads of history.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 379 pages
• Publisher: Buccaneer Books (February 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899661017
• ISBN-13: 978-0899661018
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,627,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!, July 26, 2001

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Kathy Carroll (Monmouth, ME USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Castle On The Hill (Audio Cassette)

Elizabeth Goudge is my favorite author, and this is one of my favorites by her. If you like Rosamunde Pilcher you will love Goudge! This book was written during the war (WWII), and takes place during the same time period. It was so interesting to read, knowing that the author was in the midst of that horrible event, not knowing how it would end. Like all of her stories, it is filled with love and the eternal optimism of the human spirit.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a rare and unusual book., May 1, 2007

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Raya Madison "lifelong lit lover" (NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Castle on the Hill (Hardcover)

So many stories--especially stories written in or set in times of war--bludgeon a reader over the head with the horrors human beings commit upon one another. Goudge write stories where people struggle to be kind to one another, and given the setting of this book--England during the Blitz--their battles are eloquent, heart-breaking, and ultimately transcendent. Each of the many characters are vividly real in their distress and their desires, and each confronts a battle within that calls forth every resource of their humanity and strength. And all of this told with prose that evokes landscape and setting in ways astonishing and all too rare in fiction. Goudge deserves to be read, celebrated, and studied much more than she is. Her books are memorable, evocative; reading them is at once a humbling and illuminating experience, and this is one of her best.