The Dressmaker's War

Un roman care ar merita mult mai multă atenție din partea cititorilor. Rar mi se întîmplă să citesc cărți și autori despre care nu știu nimic. Dar de data aceasta, chiar nu se poate afla nimic, nici despre autoare, și nici despre romanul ei de debut. Identitatea lui Mary Chamberlain e prezentată pret......more

I've read a good number of books about WWII, told from different perspectives , both fiction and non fiction -some depicting the holocaust and the horrific experiences of the concentration and death camps , some portraying it from the soldier's perspective, some focusing on the resistance movement a......more

Een verhaal dat blijft boeien...ik heb het in één keer uitgelezen! De ambitieuze Ada, dromend van een beter leven, hopend op een betere toekomst, haar milieu ontvluchten...naïef...valt voor de eerste de beste man die haar het hof maakt...gelovend dat hij graaf Stanislaus von Lieben is...Ze gaat met......more

Senzationala, nu ma asteptam la un așa final.......more

What a depressing ending, Just feels like it wasnt worth it to end like this. But a necessary read to see what injustices were done to the British working classes and particularly working class women. and a girl who worked as a prostitute, even if forced into it, would never stand a chance. she would......more