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Monday, April 8, 2024
Book Review: One Year, One Night
One Year, One Night by S.L. Roman Genre: Historical Fiction ISBN: 9781947159815 Print Length: 152 pages Publisher: One Elm Books Reviewed by Erin Britton Life on the home front proves to be nearly as precarious a…
Life on the home front proves to be nearly as precarious as life on the battlefield in One Year, One Night, S.L. Roman's dual timeline historical novel for young adults.
Told from the perspective of a young woman who was a teenager at the outbreak of World War II and who found events from that time impossible to forget later in life, it explores how major happenings on the global level can have myriad consequences for average people on the local level, bringing both danger and opportunity and changing the courses of lives forever.
In 1960, 36-year-old Annie Corbett has rather reluctantly returned to Millside, the rural backwater where she grew up, to participate in a ceremony to mark the twentieth anniversary of the village being bombed in the run up to the Blitz. She has complex feelings about the occasion, particularly the participation of fading movie star Suzie Bell, although there might be some element of resentment or envy involved: "… nobody had a thought to spare for me even if I had been a key figure in the whole story, besides having been away from the village for many years."
Still, she treats her return as something of a pilgrimage, revisiting old haunts, stopping off at the former site of her family's hardware shop, and visiting the home of a fondly remembered neighbor, Mrs. Bassett. Annie actually has an ulterior motive in doing the latter, as the destruction caused by the bombing had necessitated her family moving into Mrs. Bassett's house for several weeks, and when they had moved out, Annie had left her diary hidden in a wardrobe there.
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