The Dust That Falls from Dreams

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.