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Chargement... A Time for Silence (1991)par Philippa Carr
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The last read for me of The Daughters of England series and I am somewhat glad to be done. She has a few stock characters and plots. Here Lucinda, the daughter of Lucie, has much the same type of adventure as her mother but on a smaller scale. Her charming adventurer does not turn out quite so badly but I can only describe Lucinda as the nice but dim female type. Her unrelated but treated as cousin Annabelinda gets to play the smart but evil (and, of course, the one men love) type that her mother Belinda has in the previous book. Compared to previous books, the cadish rouge male character is pretty inoffensive but the good but dull male is strangely the same. Meanwhile, WWI is a subplot. Plus the worlds worst secret agents and some plot points that stick out a mile and we have all our elements. Glad to be done and reading the whole 20 book series in order has slipped very low on my future reading goals. Although not the worst book in the Daughter of England series, “A Time for Silence” is bland, passive, and predictable. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen, but whenever a chance arises for some drama, it’s “told”, not “shown”. Second-hand accounts in which the first-person narrator recounts something she’s heard do nothing to liven up the story. We get reported speech, like: >Mrs. Cherry said the servants all wanted to go out to join the throng and I said they must. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieDaughters of England (17) Appartient à la série éditorialeHeyne Allgemeine Reihe (8833)
While the world teeters on the brink of World War I, a young woman's indiscretion leads to a seething viper's nest of blackmail and murder In 1912, with war looming on the horizon, thirteen-year-old Lucinda Greenham is sent to an exclusive boarding school in Belgium. Her joy in sharing this adventure with her best friend, Annabelinda, is cut short when Annabelinda has a clandestine affair leading to pregnancy. Annabelinda's family arranges a "rest cure" and when the girl returns to school, she seems to have forgotten the incident. Then, in the wake of Germany's invasion of Belgium, Lucinda and Annabelinda are forced to flee across Europe and find a welcome savior in the dashing Major Marcus Merrivale. Safely back in England, Lucinda vows to keep her friend's secret. But someone in the household has uncovered the truth about Annabelinda and the lively baby called Edward. Now Lucinda, who has lost her heart to a decorated soldier, is faced with keeping another secret. As a blackmail plot erupts in murder, and war eradicates a way of life forever, Lucinda discovers that there is a time for love . . . and a time for silence. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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