When Catherine, a teleprinter operator in the WRNS, is posted to the war-torn city of Liverpool, she meets Tom Lyddon. The usual stages of courtship are dispensed with, and the two begin an affair. But their idyll is soon to be shattered by the realities of war.
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In an effort to make a decisive contribution to her country during WW II, fashion and gossip columnist Catherine Saxon signs on with the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrensp. 46 for short). Her frequentwriter is prolific , descriptive and relentlessly chatty letters home to an old friend run the gamut, with Catherine relays everything: her observations about the tricky alliances formed among women from all classes when they are forced to live together in spartan quarters; tales of operating since she's a woman the bulky and temperamental telegraph machines; and her feelings for Tom Lyddon, a stalwart career soldier she meets when she's posted to Liverpool. Theirs is a love affair forged in the grim realities and foreshortened sense of time fostered by the war. When Tom's overseas assignment separates them, Catherine is left to sort out the tumultuous uncertainties of a world at war and the meaning of her involvement in the service. Apart from its sometimes bumpy exposition, this is, in the end, a satisfying read that takes its place ably among the slew of mysteries that Pargeter has written as Ellis Peters.
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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Readers of the Brother Cadfael series know Pargeter's insights into passion. In this elegiac, semi-autobiographical novel, she again shows this strength. Her narrator is of like quality. To say that Boyd masters Pargeter's sensibility and language is an understatement. She embodies the determination of the young Wren as she lives out WWII, expressing rueful sangfroid or raging protest. The epistilary format might have been unappealing, however suited to audio, but so committed is this presentation that we, ourselves, become the recipients of the letters. Their words of grim events in a grim time echo long after the tape is over. S.B.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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This is about the wars behind "The War": the turmoil, humor, the victories, defeats and disasters of the many women and men by who's efforts soldiers are put into the field. It is also a window into a bygone era, when idealists thought that ideas would change the social structure of the world they lived in. Touching and memorable. Recommended for anyone researching the era and/or the author, as it is based on her first-hand experiences.
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