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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2022
The story line for the book was a great idea. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and then wanting to find out what happened next.
The details of the Nazis and their persecution and cruelty were well written, with great detail from thorough research. The descriptions of Paris, Breton coast etc were excellent and obviously well researched.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as the others, I think it is my 3rd Fiona Valpy novel. I think that the story finale was a bit easy to guess. Perhaps Mirelle should have been Simone's great grandmother. I knew my own great grandmother, because often women were married much younger.
Sadly, Fiona repeated the sentence about inherited trauma at least 3 times if not more. Perhaps it could have been written differently, maybe as epigenetics or something else like that? It felt like poor editing that the same sentence was repeated again and again. We understood that Felicity had been unhappy and killed herself. We didn't need it to be repeated.
Page 122 had no punctuation in my edition, that felt a bit like poor editing.
Fiona is a good author and she's put together a book that I couldn't put down. Her editors have let her down on this book.
I think that older women would enjoy this novel. Women over 70 years.
The details of the Nazis and their persecution and cruelty were well written, with great detail from thorough research. The descriptions of Paris, Breton coast etc were excellent and obviously well researched.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as the others, I think it is my 3rd Fiona Valpy novel. I think that the story finale was a bit easy to guess. Perhaps Mirelle should have been Simone's great grandmother. I knew my own great grandmother, because often women were married much younger.
Sadly, Fiona repeated the sentence about inherited trauma at least 3 times if not more. Perhaps it could have been written differently, maybe as epigenetics or something else like that? It felt like poor editing that the same sentence was repeated again and again. We understood that Felicity had been unhappy and killed herself. We didn't need it to be repeated.
Page 122 had no punctuation in my edition, that felt a bit like poor editing.
Fiona is a good author and she's put together a book that I couldn't put down. Her editors have let her down on this book.
I think that older women would enjoy this novel. Women over 70 years.
