The dust that falls from dreams
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Average rating4.5
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Ratings2
Average rating4.5
In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood. When the boys end up scattered along the Western Front, Rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?
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The four McCosh sisters grow up between the well-mannered Pendennis boys and the wild Pitt boys in Edwardian England. Then along comes World War I to shake up everyone's lives.
The research the author put into this story was evident on every page and that is the book's strength and its weakness: I want to fall into the historical setting but I don't want to be prodded and poked and reminded of it.
Fortunately, that's not the book's only strength; the characters are delightfully real. And the plot spins along nicely. My enjoyment of the book grew as I read along, and that doesn't always happen with me when I read a 500+ page book like this.
