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This — her first novel — starts in 1948. The heroine, Marguerite Carter, a beautiful, half-French, half-English girl who, having worked behind enemy lines for the Special Operations Executive during the war, opts for the less exotic life of a teacher in a girls’ school.
There is more than a touch of The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie about the book, although the background relies much more on Carter’s involvement with politics.
We watch her change — along with her pupils — through the challenges of the Fifties, Sixties and, finally, the impending Iraq war.
For the most part, Hancock’s gamble pays off. Her storytelling is straightforward and often passionate. Carter is an original and convincing character, and Hancock would be perfect for the part in a film of the book.
Now and again, the passion verges on the preachy, but it never spoils this extremely readable book.
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From the first page, Pitre makes you feel what it’s like to be fighting in the hell of the Iraqi desert. He writes with the unique insight of a marine who spent two tours of duty there.
The three soldiers in this book had the very mundane, but highly dangerous, task of repairing potholes in the roads of Al Anbar Province.
They survive, but for what? That’s the question that propels a story that is never sentimental, but not without tenderness. Pitre shows a rare skill in converting his real-life experiences into a psychologically convincing account of the terrible problems faced by soldiers in war that can become even worse when they have apparently won the peace.
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President Obama was recently photographed buying Oliver’s books for his daughters.
She is a transglobal success at writing what is termed YA (young adult) literature.
This is the first time she has written for grown-ups. The story is told by a couple of bickering ghosts called Alice and Sandra. They live in a house where an unhappy family meet to sort out their inheritance.
The family — an alcoholic mother, a slutty daughter and a suicidal son — are a bit too samey and, although endless secrets are revealed about everyone, including the ghosts, the plot is a bit of a stretch.
Nevertheless, as an outline for a Hollywood script with Susan Sarandon and Whoopi Goldberg playing the ghosts, Oliver probably has another global hit on her hands.
But not really one for Michelle Obama, or busy adults.
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