Having grown up in the 1950s and heard my mother’s wartime stories, this story feels right. The common humanity and suffering throughout Europe is clearly shown as Peter and Archie try to escape and travel home. She also records the effects of the First World War on the marriage of Rhoda’s parents. The reader experiences her wartime romance, a delightful parallel to the film, “Brief Encounters” and the terrible experiences of a group of British soldiers captured early in the war and kept imprisoned for over 5 years. Like her husband, Peter, she is concealing a secret which is keeping them apart. I loved it.ĭavina Blake expresses the tortured life of Rhoda during the war and her marriage up till 1955. It describes boredom and hardship and deep passion. With echoes of “Atonement,” we read of the horrors, sadness and wasted lives of World War Two. Past Encounters is a book you can’t put down and yet you don’t want it to finish.
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