My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

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My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

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At times this book was heart-wrenching and I felt absolutely miserable for what Riley had to endure. This novel had several moments full of hollowness and heartbreak, not heartbreak in the sense of romance but of hope. I could completely empathize with Riley Purefoy, the protagonist, and I understand why he made the choices he did.

What I liked about this was the candid way in which the class differences and prejudices were looked at, in a manner that was fresh and straightforward.Would probably have benefited from deciding what it was - literary (less plot, more navel-gazing) or genre (more plot, less navel-gazing) and sticking with it. I liked how this novel shows how WWI brought together the classes and made relationships between the classes acceptable whereas they were frowned upon before the war. This allowed bad news to travel swiftly back to England without having to go through the censors, but also restricted the men to using an emotionless tick box system.

The novel is set during the First World War, but tells the story in a very original way, much more so than most historical fiction. Great advances in this field have always been made as a consequence of the horrific injuries inflicted on combatants in wars.Days after I read the last page I was still thinking on this novel, I found my mind drifting back to the characters and still turning their stories over in my head. Beginning in Edwardian London, Louisa Young's fourth novel focuses on Riley Purefoy, an attractive, young working-class boy, who meets the well-to-do bohemian Waveney family after a mishap in the park near to their beautiful Georgian house. Riley, whose life we witness from his boyhood onwards, goes through a lot of changes and there comes a time when he even turns into a quite unlikeable fellow.

He could delete one word from the sentence – ‘I have a slight / serious wound” – and this important option is really the centre of the book and a passionate love story. For me personally it was an eye-opener to another world - both of my grandfathers died very young because of that war and I therefore never met either of them. From everything I have read, World War I was traumatic to all those who fought and for all those who were left behind.Je peux citer quelques titres que je recommande: "Regeneration", "The Eye in the Door" et "The Ghost Road" par Pat Barker, "A Long Long Way" par l'auteur irlandais Sebastian Barry, "The Three-Day Road" par le canadien Joseph Boyden. While it is a bit heavy to be a beach read, it would be a lovely choice for anyone who is looking to pass a rainy afternoon lost in another world. And now My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, her fourth novel for adults, is set amid the desperation of the first world war. At times, Young's writing is stellar, particularly in her descriptions of war (from all directions - the front, the nurses, those comfortably at home, those less comfortably at home. Meanwhile we meet Peter and Julia Locke who are upper class and Peter ends up in the trenches as Riley's commanding officer.



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