The Camomile Lawn

I saw the TV adaptation of this years ago and finally got round to reading the book. Strangely, I was disappointed. There's no discernible plot and some of the characters, particularly Aunt Helena are hard to like. The book follows a group of cousins and their families through the war years from their last summer together in Cornwall in August 1939. There are also flash-forwards to the funeral of one of the characters in the 1980's, where various story strands get resolved, sort of. The characters are selfish in the main, the younger ones treating the war as some great adventure. Maybe it was. Maybe I can't relate to them. Overall I was expecting something more.