Also there is no sex scenes and this is the kind of book where the sex scenes would have helped, where I needed to see more intimacy between them. I wish I could give it 5 stars but I can’t…The romance was way too subtle, Jim’s POV was needed because by the end of the book I still didn’t know him very well. )Īnd so we read about Harry and Jim, Jack and Kitty (amazing side characters) and snotty Thomas (the other brother) and about the horrors of the war and how hard it was for the ppl in the village and everything is so British and the writing is so beautiful. He’s kind and gentle and so honest and pure (he’s also gay) And Jim, so shy and so innocent gah, I loved him too (Jim had a hard time with the ppl in the village because he is a pacifist and he refused to fight in the war. He founds his brother Jack working the farm with the help of a handful of ppl, among them our second MC, Jim (42) who is much more than he seems at first sight (we only have Harry’s POV so we get to discover Jim bit by bit as the story unfolds.
His father (a baronet) just died so Harry inherited the title (as he’s the eldest of the 4 sons) and a run down estate and farm. Harry (29) comes home from the war (after many years of absence), seriously injured while serving on a submarine. It’s actually very similar to James Anson’s The Larton Chronicles (minus the war) as in two British country folks fall in love quietly and gently and naturally, in a very no-nonsense, no-drama British way.
What a marvelous book !! Although this might not be everybody’s cup of tea because even though there is a quite charming and gentle romance the book is more like a chronicle, a specific moment in the life of a handful of British ppl during WWII and it was such a pleasure to read it.
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