The Light Years

Quite Enid Blyton for adults at times in the way that the children's adventures and the meals they have are described. This is a comforting book but layered with the tension that the family who have already been affected by one devastating conflict, wi soon be affected by another. There are continual undertones that behind the idyllic life of the family there are secrets lurking. Although this is not an explicit book, I do wish that she had been a little braver with Rachel's relationship with Sid. I understand that the way that it is portrayed is completely in character, but to me it is getting a bit too close to the unhappy homosexual trope. Still, this could be rectified in a later book.