The Winter House

by Judith Lennox

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552143324
• ISBN13: 9780552143325
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Corgi Books
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Unbelievably sweeping- A saga in the confusions of the 30's

From the first page this book had an expectional dynamic I have rarely experienced before. The three female heroins , Robin who wants to change the world, experience and gets involved with the problems of London's worker families, the poverty and most at all the political lot of England and Europe. Maia, pretty and ambitious, carried out to marry a wealthy man, after her father commited suicide. Young and naive, how she called herself at the end of the story, she actually married a wealthy man, but everything she hoped to get, most at all to be happy in life, were refused and life had an totally different way for her. Last but not least there is Helen, a preacher's daughter who lives togther with her father without her mother who died really young. Her father gets by to tie her at the bleak landscape of the fens over years, and it seems like all her wishes to have a small house, a husband and many children would be forever deleted. These three friends in the time before the World War II went her ways, mostly unexpected ones through love, life and career into the dreadful battles between the Republicans and Fascists in Spain 1936/1937 where Robin follows her boyfriend and brother that both fighted on the front as part of the International Brigades against the Nationalists and Robin helped in military hospitals. Their wishes and hopes changed, beliefs and fears accompanied them trough an incredible life and the secrets they swore to share and celebrate, like their first journey abroad,drifted them apart and brought them even closer together. But in that whole dismal time Judith Lennox still finds a chance to create an great emotional romantic lovestory. For me this novel is a must have read, it changed some of my opinions and confronted me with the fears and desires in a nearly forgotten time. Between London, Cambridge, Ely, Paris, Munich and Madrid this novel provided a great basis for a bestseller.