All PDF Details And All in one Detail like Improve Your Knowledge
Friday, March 1, 2024
#BookReview of #TheWartimeBookClub by Kate Thompson @katethompson380 @HodderBooks @RandomTTours @HodderFiction #RandomThingsTours
calturner posted: " As part of the blog tour I'm delighted to share my book review of The Wartime Book Club by the always fantastic Kate Thompson. Thank you to Anne Cater and Hodder & Stoughton for giving me the opportunity to read and revi"
As part of the blog tour I'm delighted to share my book review of The Wartime Book Club by the always fantastic Kate Thompson. Thank you to Anne Cater and Hodder & Stoughton for giving me the opportunity to read and review this lovely book.
About the book:
Jersey, 1943.
Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island.
Grace La Mottée, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy and escapism of reading.
But as the occupation drags on, the women's quiet acts of bravery become more perilous - and more important - than ever before. And, when tensions turn to violence, they are forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance…
Based on astonishing real events, The Wartime Book Club is a love letter to the power of books in the darkest of times - as well as a moving page turner that brings to life the remarkable, untold story of an island at war.
About the author:
Kate Thompson is an award-winning journalist, ghostwriter and novelist who has spent the past two decades in the UK mass market and book publishing industry. Over the past eight years Kate has written twelve fiction and non-fiction titles, three of which have made the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list.
Kate's new podcast, 'From the Library with Love', is available to listen to now.
My Review:
As a big fan of Kate Thompson's books I was delighted to be given the opportunity to read and review her latest book The Wartime Book Club as part of the blog tour. And I have to say I was not disappointed!
Set on the island of Jersey during the Second World War, it tells the story of librarian Grace and her headstrong best friend, Bea. Instructed to destroy any books that threaten the new German regime Grace, with the help of Bea, hides them away instead. Forming a secret wartime book club to give scared islanders the pleasure and much needed escapism of reading, Grace and Bea have no idea just how important their little book club is going to turn out to be.
Full of strong, gutsy and believable characters, this is a book that really does highlight the strength and resilience of the people who went through the long, dark days of the occupation.
There's Grace, the island's only librarian, who risks everything as German soldiers patrol the streets of her home town. And then there's headstrong postwoman Bea, Grace's best friend, who is desperate to fight back and will do everything in her power to protect the island and the people that she loves.
I loved every word of this heartwarming and moving book as it instantly transported me to 1940's Jersey, making me feel a maelstrom of emotions right alongside the characters as they try to come to terms with just how radically their lives have now changed. And with simmering tensions beginning to erupt, Grace and Bea are finally forced to confront the true and terrible cost of resistance…
Meticulously researched and based on real life events, Kate Thompson has written a rich and deeply moving story that gets to the heart of what it must have been like to live in Jersey at the time of the occupation, with characters that are brought oh so vividly to life by her beautiful writing and skilful storytelling. Once started I could not put this book down as I quickly became absorbed in the lives of Grace and Bea, my heart in my mouth as their acts of bravery became more and more perilous.
Kate Thompson is the queen of wartime fiction and The Wartime Book Club is full of the traditional warmth and humour we have come to expect from her writing. A love letter to the power of books in the darkest of times, it is also a book that brings to life a story that needed to be told of an island at war and the brave people who inhabited it, proving once again just how resilient the human spirit can be.
Highly recommended.
The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson is available to buy now:
No comments:
Post a Comment