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It is 1939. Lavender--La to her friends--decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. Settling in as small town, she organizes an amateur orchestra from the village and the local RAF base and falls in love with one of her prized recruits.… (mehr)
Superficial treatment of life during wartime. The BBC Series "Foyle's War" and "Island at War" are much better, as is 'The Guernesy Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' and Steinbeck's 'The Moon is Down'. Skip this one unless you have unlimited time to read everything that comes down the pike. ( )
Tale of widow in the English countryside who falls in love with Polish airman, loses and then regains him. Her orchestra was a local one, raising morale during the worst of the Blitz.
This is a sweet and sharply poignant story about the small things that make a big impact in our world. No one treads the boundaries of cozy, sweet, and sorrowful quite like Alexander McCall Smith. ( )
". . . McCall Smith tells a deceptively quiet story about what might on the surface seem a life of disappointment. . . [yet] La, with or without her slightly out-of-tune orchestra, saves her circumscribed world with little fanfare, one human gesture at a time."
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This book is for J.K. Mason.
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Two men, who were brothers, went to Suffolk.
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For her, life seemed unchanged, barely touched by the movements and shifts of the times. Again I have missed it, she thought; heady things are happening, and I am not there; I am somewhere in the wings, watching what is happening on the stage, in a play in which I have no real part. That is what my life has been.... I have been a handmaiden; she relished the word--a handmaiden; one who waits and watches; assists, perhaps, but only in a small way....
"We can't afford to be without God," Feliks continued.... If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things, too."
La thought about this. He was right, perhaps, even if she did not feel that she needed God in the same way Feliks seems to need him. She would do whatever she had to do--even if it was for the sake of simple decency. You did not wipe a child's tears because God told you to do so. You did it because the tears were there.
Surely she should feel indifferent towards him--there were so many displaced persons, people washed up by the war, people from somewhere else--and yet already she felt that looking after him was something that she had to do. But why? Because he was in need and he was about to cross her path. That, perhaps, was the basis of our responsibility to one another; the simple fact that we collided with one another.
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And she picked up the boys, one after the other, and kissed them.
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It is 1939. Lavender--La to her friends--decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. Settling in as small town, she organizes an amateur orchestra from the village and the local RAF base and falls in love with one of her prized recruits.