Mary Lawlor

To be perfectly honest, in the beginning I was not feeling this book at all. I wanted to be done with it even before I barely was into it. Yet, because it is in one of my favorite genre's to read, I decided to give it a second chance. So, glad that I did. Author, Mary Lawlor did a very good job of portraying her family life with a military father.

What I enjoyed the most was not just about Mary's father's experiences in the military but additionally what life was like living back in this time of the Cold War. I am not as well versed in this war as I am WWI or WWII.

While, Mary's father may have been the one fighting in the real war; Mary's mother was fighting her own battle to keep her family together and raising them as best she could. Which I thought she did a good job of doing so. For a lot of Mary's stories about her father, they were serious, so it was nice to read about her laughing over the beer experiment incident. This is a well written book. The family pictures were a nice addition as well.… (mehr)