This one was no different. I honestly didn't remember what it was about, but it was on list of Christmas stuff to read it, so I got lucky it was cheap on Amazon for my paperwhite. It wasn't really about Christmas all that much, and it was much longer than I thought, but once I finished this morning, I was on the floor. It was just so much, so much love, so much history, so much reality of WW1, so much .... highly recommend!!
August 1914. England is at war. As
Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding,
depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it will be over by
Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes
of Paris.But as history tells us, it all happened so differently… Evie and
Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged
young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict—but how?—and as
Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal
battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble
at his father’s newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas
share their greatest hopes and fears—and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love
flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene? Christmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas
returns to Paris—a cherished packet of letters in hand—determined to lay to
rest the ghosts of his past. But one final letter is waiting for him… (picture and description at Amazon)
Now on to really Christmas books that happen at Christmas!
O:)
Melissa
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