Barbara Sinclair is a sweet and innocent eighteen year old
girl, who wants to escape from her unloving mother and step-father. Barbara
plans to do this by joining the Land Army, hoping this will give her the
opportunity to escape from an extremely difficult home life.
When her good friend John, who she has known since she was a
girl, kisses her on the day he is leaving for flying school, to fight for his
country. Barbara feels shocked and confused, she had always thought that they
were just good friends and she had never had any romantic feelings towards him
what-so-ever. She feels she must respond to his feelings, fearing he may go away
unhappy and hurt if not.
Then after a particular awful incident at home, Barbara
learns that her deceased father’s parents, her grandparents are alive and she
sets out to find them.
Will Barbara find peace and happiness if she finds her
grandparents?
Can she ever love John anything more than like a brother? Or
will the new life she seeks bring other temptations her way?
Barbara’s War is a superb novel set during the Second World
War, about one young woman’s own personal war against the unhappy life and to
seek happiness. It is a coming of age story that is excellently written, it has
you gripped from page one and the wonderfully written plot is so very entertaining
with the occasional unexpected happenings in the plot and the way it is written
is in a fast pace which leaves the reader half-way through the book before you
know it, happily passing time by too without you noticing. Barbara is a very
sweet and likable character and I am pleased to hear that there will be a
Barbara’s War Part Two, as I reached the end of the book, I did not want to
leave it there. I cared so much about the character of Barbara that I wanted to
read more and find out and to make sure she got her happily ever after.
To buy this book from Amazon UK, click here http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009L5BKZY
To buy this book from Amazon US, click here http://amzn.com/B009L5BKZY
No comments:
Post a Comment