![]() ![]() Lovely, haunting, illuminating and masterful. It’s not an easy book, but as we travel through the clues and information with Edie and Harry as they uncover them, we understand that there might be healing in the process, and maybe even the opportunity to move forward. ![]() This is a beautiful, brilliant novel that offers a deep and unusual look at a time in history that is rarely explored, and the dual timeline of the book-during the war and in the aftermath, when Edie is searching for Francis-does a great job of laying out the complicated story and delving into the difficult emotions the two characters contend with. But through her journey, she begins to understand the brutality, disarray and lunacy of war, and the way it affects the men who experienced it. Widow Edie learns more than she wanted to know about the trenches, and the experiences of her husband and his brothers, as well as other people she meets on the way. The time directly after WWI was chaotic and harrowing, with so many men missing in action, and often no answers as to what happened, given the turbulent nature of the war and the many ways men could disappear in the midst of battle. There’s a lot going on in this book, and all of it is so gorgeously, gracefully rendered, so quietly, powerfully placed, like bricks, and built up into a tower of emotional insight and perception, as we follow a war widow searching for her lost husband, and her brother-in-law, Harry, who winds up on the same trail. ![]()
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