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Kris (My Novelesque Life)
Aug 01, 2014 rated it really liked it
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Phair
Sep 02, 2009 rated it liked it
Similar to the Maisie Dobbs books. While I enjoyed this it didn't blow me away. Pretty good period feel- different from Maisie in that the setting here is during the war and Bess is still serving as a nurse although on medical leave for most of this book. One thing that irked me was inclusion of a scene where Bess describes the death of a boy back in India from snakebite. It was almost the exact scene from a movie I had watched recently on TCM, Director Jean Renoir's The River (1951) based on a ...more
Allison
Nov 29, 2014 marked it as to-read
Sharmon
May 21, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2014, mystery-series
Maureen
Aug 20, 2018 marked it as to-read