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Henrietta's War
Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 (The Bloomsbury Group) | Joyce Dennys
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Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable (…more)
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willaful

I think #FurrowedMiddlebrow brought this to my attention and I just loved it -- more than D.E. Stevenson's similar “Mrs. Tim,“ books, to be honest. Narrator Henrietta would be a huge hit on Twitter.

LeahBergen I have this waiting on my shelves. Are you going to read the sequel, too? 2y
willaful I've recommended it to my library, so I hope so! Open Library has it, but not downloadable alas. I can't read on my computer. 2y
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margreads
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Earlier this week I did a blog post about books that are on my shelf that I haven't read and couldn't remember why they were there. One of those books was this one. I started reading it today and it is an utter delight so far!

#wwii #letters

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abookishrendezvous
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This book was a delightful read laced with typical British humour and pearls of wisdom doled out in a subtle manner. The day-to-day struggles of people living in a village in Devonshire are chronicled in a balanced manner. The reader is given a glimpse of the privations suffered by the British people during the Second World War. This is a book that needs to be cherished and enjoyed. After reading it, I felt such a warm feeling bubble up within me.

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KerriNTurner
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#maybookflowers #war One on my TBR list, because of how similar it sounds in tone and theme (village life during the war) to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I was sold when the blurb mentioned Lady B, "who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely what she thinks of him".

rubyslippersreads I have this, but haven't read it yet. 8y
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apostot
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April wrapup...
Henrietta's War, The Underground railroad, The little Paris bookshop, Θέκλη, Της Ματζουράνενας το χάλασμα και άλλα αφηγήματα, Το ρόδο της Αλεξάνδρειας, Καφέ Κλεμέντε.
#instavivlio #readathon17 #bookstagram #books #instabooks #reading #bookworm #bibliophile #instabook #readingchallenge #bookaddict

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Clevercactus
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The book is a series of letters from a middle aged housewife to her childhood friend who is fighting in Europe during WWII. Henrietta is a weak woman and would make even the mildest feminist cringe with her helplessness. Thankfully, the book was short so I just kept calm and carried on.

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