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Jul 18, 2023loveirises rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I agree with Sandra Perkins review. I finally had to skip to last chapter for a a really sad and odd ending. Love Masie Dobbs but thought this one was boring.
Jun 23, 2023jrao2020 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I like this very much. I listened to the e-book. It was compelling and I could see it all in my head. I felt like the story abruptly ended, however, it I guess it did for Kezia, too. Would love a follow up on this, just because I miss…
Jan 27, 2023
wait for ebook
May 02, 2020careinseattle rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I have enjoyed the Maisie Dobbs series, but I didn't find the characters or the story line in this book compelling. I had to keep forcing myself to go back to reading it because it just didn't hold my interest. Too much telling what the…
Jan 02, 2020lune rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I read the book first, then I listened to the audiobook and I enjoyed both versions a great deal. The lies referred to in the title are very sweet indeed. Two great love stories. I wish Jacqueline Winspear would write a follow-up novel to…
Jul 18, 2017Wsargeant rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Very enjoyable reading. The plot takes many turns that I didn't see coming. There is depth in the personal stories and a side of WWI which I have not seen presented before. This is the best out of the last 10 or so books that I have…
Feb 09, 2017glotet rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This well constructed intimate story of one woman's life gave me a startling sense of connection with how one's life could be changed suddenly by the crushing violence of WW1. The author was successful in ending the story by demonstrating…
Jun 10, 2016EmilyEm rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
School friends Kezia and Thea—once Dorrit— lives take different courses when they leave school as teachers. Kezzie marries Thea's brother Tom and becomes a farmer's wife—a farm whose fields and woodlands all have names from Dickens'…
Apr 14, 2015brangwinn rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Winspear has created a stand-alone story about life on a British farm during WWI. When educated Kezia marries the brother of her best friend, she’s in for an education about what it takes to be a farmer’s wife. When her husband, Tom,…
ronsmedley
Feb 23, 2015
The ending is sad indeed ..... but points out the war is definitely hell and in no way glamorous like the understanding that the new recruits for the war seems to have.
Sep 23, 2014LPL_ShirleyB rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This intense novel by the author of the wonderful Maisie Dobbs mystery series shares similar WWI themes, although it’s not a mystery. The title refers to the careful letters wife Kezia and husband Tom exchange to not worry each other as…
Sep 18, 2014DorisWaggoner rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Loving Maisie Dobbs, I had to switch gears on this one. But I was glad I was able to, and I think Maisie would understand exactly what Winspear was writing about. Three honorable people, Tom, his sister Thea, her best friend Kezia, who…
Sep 14, 2014genepy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A sad and beautiful story with lots of charming characters and a very hateful villain ... Kezia , the leading heroine is a resourceful, brilliant and dedicated young wife one easily falls for. Mrs Winspear's detailed , refreshing and…
Sep 06, 2014maipenrai rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
**** stars. The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood,…
Aug 26, 2014Roundcat rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a novel set at the beginning of World War I, with a well-researched background of the farming communities and social climate as England joins the fighting. It is a study of human strength of character under stress. Kezia and Tom,…
Aug 23, 2014sandraperkins rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I love the Maisie Dobbs books, but this stand alone novel was disappointing. Plot was minimal, and all of the characters hid from each other what they were really feeling. It was depressing. I am sorry I spent time reading this book.
Aug 18, 2014
"In this poignant novel of love and friendship tested by separation and war, Kezia struggles to keep her ordered life from unravelling after her husband enlists to fight for his country, while Thea, her best friend, sister-in-law and…
lightbulbgirl
Jul 28, 2014lightbulbgirl rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed all the Maisie Dobbs books. This book is quite a departure in style from those books but after a slow start I got into it. It is a social commentary on the futility of war, man's inhumanity to man, religion's role in…
aisha65
Jul 21, 2014aisha65 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I really loved her Maisie series. Not so much on this one