B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Diary / dual-timeline / England / paramedic / post WWI / PTSD / War / Military / World War I1 Comments
Once upon a time I would have trusted him with my life, but the Alfie I fell in love with seems to have disappeared, and I’m afraid I’ll never find him again. 1918 – As victory bells sound across London, Rose Barker waits for her darling husband Alfie to come ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Anglo-Indian / country house party / England / Ghost / murder mystery / non-romance / post WWI2 Comments
A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsBelgium / England / Germany / Historical / Historical fiction / post WWI / reconciliation / veterans / widow / Womens-Fiction / World War IComments Off on REVIEW: In Love and War by Liz Trenow
In the summer of 1919, British Ruby is mourning her beloved husband Bertie, missing since 1916. His grief-stricken parents ask one last task of her: travel to the Belgian battlefields to find Bertie’s grave, and with it the peace that will come with knowing his final resting place. Alice, an ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Historical / mental health / nurse / Paranormal / post WWI / PTSD / retired military / turn of the 20th century / War / Military7 Comments
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / England / Ghost / Gothic / historical mystery / murder-investigation / Paranormal lite / post WWI / War / Military / World War I5 Comments
England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex’s wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her ... more >
B- ReviewsAfrican American / Historical / inspirational / journalist / post WWI / Samhain-publishing / World War I2 Comments
Caldwell returned from the Great War with nothing to show for it—as in nothingbelow his left knee. Forget about the journalism career he loved. His story is over. Done. Yet he finds the strength to journey to Winslow, Georgia, to get Ruby Bledsoe Morson’s sister out of trouble. Before he ... more >