I’m a big fan of fiction set during WWII England. I also enjoy reading series and War Clouds Over Blackberry Farm is the first in a series. I think this will be a cozy read for our November LWD Book Club selection.
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War Clouds Over Blackberry Farm
By Rosie Clarke
Cambridgeshire – March 1939
As the clouds of war begin to gather in Europe, the Talbot family of rural Blackberry Farm will be torn apart, just as so many families all over the world will be. Life will never be the same again.
Whilst in London, the Salmons family will feel the pain of parting and loss.
Brought together by war, the two families become intertwined and, as the outlook looks bleak, they must draw on each other’s strength to fight through the hard times.
Lizzie Johnson and Tom were sweethearts until a mistake caused a terrible rift. Lizzie takes herself off to London to heal the pain in a glamorous new job but she still loves Tom. His pride has been hurt – but deep down inside Tom still cares. Can they find happiness before their chance is gone and the whole world is swept into the terrible madness of war?
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Hi, Dee!
I am also a big fan of fiction set during WWII England. I have been using our library app for eBooks = HOOPLA. I have read so many books set in this timeframe. I sometimes wonder if I lived through it!.I know my parents did.
I recently came across Fenella J. Miller’s historical fiction books. (She has three series.) I absolutely love them! I’ll check to see if I can get your recommendation through HOOPLA or through my library.
Thank you for the recommendation. I have a subscription to Scribd and just checked. They have her books. I’ve added them to my “to read” list.
I enjoy reading WWII fiction, so will definitely add this one to my to-read list. Whether I get to it this month will remain to be seen, but it’s going on the list for sure.
Right now I have several books on the go at once. I’m currently reading Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swensen cosy mystery series, plus I’m involved in a couple of re-reads (“The Borrowers” by Mary Norton and Michelle Paver’s “Chronicles of Ancient Darkness” series to refresh my memory of the ones I have read before starting the ones in the series I didn’t get around to reading, the “Harry Potter” books because I want to read them in braille now I have my braille display thing, and “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte because one of the book clubs I’m in is reading it this month and I don’t object to re-reading it). I’m also about to start Nora Roberts’ “Born In” trilogy because the other book club I’m involved with is currently reading that. Hence probably not going to be making it to read this one along with you.
I picked up a copy of “The Borrowers” at the library book sale. I think I read it as a kid but look forward to reading it sometime this winter.
I definitely read “The Borrowers” as a kid, along with “The Borrowers Afield” and “The Borrowers Afloat” which are the second and third books in the series. But I recently got hold of a copy of the collection of books, which includes “The Borrowers Aloft” and “The Borrowers Avenged” which are the fourth and fifth books in the series, and which I haven’t read before (I remember someone started reading one of them to me, but I’m not even entirely sure which of the two it was, and I know for sure we never finished it). So I want to read the first three again ready to read the fourth and fifth books.