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Victor Pemberton
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Jayne
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Synopsis
For young couples like Ruth Madiewsky and Tom Phillips, the advent of the Second World War changes everything. So, when Tom proposes to Ruth during seven days leave, despite being only twenty, Ruth says yes. After all, who knows if they'll ever see each other again? But, after Tom goes back to the front, Ruth doesn't hear from him again. Is he missing, presumed dead? Or, even worse, has he just forgotten about her? Ruth is forced to get on with her life and finds herself enjoying attention from another. It is this temptation which threatens to alter Ruth's life forever, and, when, the war is finally over, she will find the battle for her own personal freedom and safety has just begun...
Review
Yet another book about war torn London during the blitz. Victor seems to have watched London and experienced so much that you can easily feel that this is happening around you today, especially with fireworks going off this afternoon on New Year's Eve.
This book is about Ruth and Tom, who have agreed to marry, but Ruth hasn't heard from him in over two months and neither have his parents who are also very worried. Ruth by chance meets Mark, who in fact saved her life when a wall at a bomb site started to topple, and he pushed her to safety. She never expected to hear from Mike again after that night, but he tries to find her and asks at the shop where Ruth's mother works and sends Ruth a letter. She does nothing at the time because it is sometime before she gets the letter as her mum has hidden it in the lounge not somewhere Ruth would normally look!
Well you like me, will have to wait till you get to the end of the book to find out what happens! But I will say it is a great story.
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