One of the most affecting books I've ever read, and superbly brought to life in the film. An extraordinarily powerful depiction of the exploitation and destruction of a child's innocence, and the far-reaching consequences of it. A beautiful evocation of a way of life that was about to disappear forever, ostensibly showing us the golden side of that life, but so clearly demonstrating how damaging it could be for people on both sides.
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Heather rated A song for summer: 2 stars
A song for summer by Eva Ibbotson
On the eve of World War II, a young Englishwoman takes a job as housemother in a boarding school in …
Heather rated William Walkers First Year Of Marriage A Horror Story: 3 stars
Heather rated Ma Polinski's Pockets: 2 stars
Heather rated Resistance: 3 stars
Heather rated The Tenderness of Wolves: 3 stars
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is …
Heather rated Churchill's Triumph: 2 stars
Victoria Hislop: Return (2009, Headline Publishing Group)
Return by Victoria Hislop
From the internationally bestselling author of The Island comes a dazzling new novel of family betrayals, forbidden love, and historical …
Heather reviewed The go-between by L. P. Hartley (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the …
Review of 'The go-between' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Heather rated The heart of the matter: 3 stars
The heart of the matter by Graham Greene
Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the …
Heather rated General prologue to the Canterbury Tales: 5 stars
General prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford student texts)
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales …
Heather rated The Whitsun weddings: 4 stars
The Whitsun weddings by Philip Larkin (Faber Paperbacks)
Heather reviewed Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Ali Smith
Review of 'Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I loved these, though ordinarily I'm not keen on short stories. Katherine Mansfield, Saki and Graham Greene are the exceptions. The characters and their worlds were so beautifully observed you could identify with them decades on and continents apart.
Heather rated Miss Garnet's angel: 3 stars
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Help is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett and published by Penguin Books in 2009. The …