This Side of Glory

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Summary: What a great book!
Review: This book is the best of the trilogy (including Deep Summer and The Handsome Road). It follows the marriage of Kester Larne and Eleanor Upjohn, two very different people who have to strike a compromise in a difficult time. It's very realistic in its treatment of marriage, and the problems that can arise when people who are attracted to each other's differences have to adjust to the very things they first loved. Neither of the two main characters is a saint, and both are very real and believable. And I learned things about the First World War that I never knew. I recommend this book highly.

Rating:
Summary: What a great book!
Review: This book is the best of the trilogy (including Deep Summer and The Handsome Road). It follows the marriage of Kester Larne and Eleanor Upjohn, two very different people who have to strike a compromise in a difficult time. It's very realistic in its treatment of marriage, and the problems that can arise when people who are attracted to each other's differences have to adjust to the very things they first loved. Neither of the two main characters is a saint, and both are very real and believable. And I learned things about the First World War that I never knew. I recommend this book highly.

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Summary: Wonderful Historical Fiction
Review: This is one of the few Bristow books that I did not have growing up. I'd read the first two in the trilogy many times before I finally found this in a library. Wow! I love it. There is so much in this book about marriage and class structure, and, of course, World War I. I'd love to go through and put several quotes that really touched me from it, but I think you should just read the book! And while you are at it, try to read all the Bristow books -- she's wonderful!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Historical Fiction
Review: This is one of the few Bristow books that I did not have growing up. I'd read the first two in the trilogy many times before I finally found this in a library. Wow! I love it. There is so much in this book about marriage and class structure, and, of course, World War I. I'd love to go through and put several quotes that really touched me from it, but I think you should just read the book! And while you are at it, try to read all the Bristow books -- she's wonderful!