I don’t know what prompted me to read this but it must have been a good recommendation because I took the time to interloan it. By Sebastian Faulks, an English author, it is a book about love and WW I. I don’t remember studying much about WW I, but this certainly filled me in. Most of the action takes place in France during the war, but switches back and forth briefly to England in the 1970s when a granddaughter becomes curious about her grandfather’s life during the war. What impressed me most were the horrors of the war, living in trenches, digging tunnels, cave ins, bad food, bombs, lice, filth. Unbelievable. And yet the loyalty among the men never flags.
Then, in Sunday’s NY Times Book Review there was a review of Faulk’s latest book, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells: An Homage to P.G. Wodehouse. Faulks must certainly be versatile! I’ll have to read it and find out.