This is a spin off of the original Touchstone series, called Touchstone Origins. I have read a couple of these now, and I do like the insight they give into the sort of background characters. This one features Mitch predominantly, with a little look at how Mrs Hudson meets him.
The author has written a great war story here, and has taken the action away from Moseley - when I read Bright Star Falling and it wasn't based in Moseley, I didn't enjoy it as much, but this one feels much better, despite being set almost entirely in Fishguard, Wales. The beginning does feel similar to the book/film, Somewhere In Time, as Mitch sees a film on TV and a picture of an actress from the war era, starring in a film called The Girl Who Saved Britain. (It also strangely reminds me of a young adult book that I loved when I was younger, called A Little Love Song, by Michelle Magorian. Something about the setting and what Andy describes, just gave me vibes of that.)
The film/picture combination, of course transports him back in time, to the 1940s, where being someone without papers, who didn't understand the money, and who wasn't up on local news, very much was labelled a spy. This causes Mitch no end of trouble, while he tries to figure out what his role his back in the 1940s and why Eleanor (the actress from the film/picture) is the girl who he loves. Mitch fits right in the 1940s, due to his dress style, but some of his mannerisms, phrases of speech have to be passed off as American-isms.
It was nice to finally hear more about Mitch after (I'm losing count now) about 8 books of the Touchstone series. He's always been a sort of enigmatic background character, always hovering just on the edges of the storyline, but never getting a full storyline. I'm sure the next book, Unfinished Sympathy, also focuses around Mitch, so we might find out more about why he's always seen to be consistently tired/flu-ey in the main series. I hope we find out more about Mrs Hudson too at some point.
Still an enjoyable series, apart from a slight dip when it focuses around Katherine/Bright Star, but I'm on the home stretch now and I look forward to finishing the series.
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Meesha
Finally get to find out more about Mitch
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 2, 2022
Grace55
Another very thrilling Touchstone story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 18, 2019Lee
Gripping war time drama
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 19, 2019
