This book about World War I, by award-winning author Theresa
Breslin, works on several levels: as a love story, a treatment of
equality between the sexes and the conflict between jingoism and
pacifism, and a chronological account of the war itself. After
rather a slow start, the pace of the novel quickens when the four
main characters are drawn into the struggle, the two young women as
a munitions worker and a nurse respectively, the two young men as
recruits to Kitchener's army, one willing, the other very
reluctant. Using the device of letters written to and from the
front line, the author gives a detailed and realistic picture of
trench warfare in France and Belgium and the conditions in
factories and hospitals both in Britain and in France. No detail is
deemed too unpleasant - this is strong stuff, although well-known.
Less familiar is the theme of women's growing independence, an idea
which is dealt with very fully and sympathetically. Maggie Dundas
has always worked hard in her father's shop, but when her brother
leaves for France she begins to resent the assumption that her
place will be at home, behind the counter or in the kitchen. A
series of bold decisions changes her life, opens her mind and shows
her what she is capable of. Exchanging letters with 'Master'
Francis, the young man from the big house in the village, she
discusses the horrors they both have to cope with and the futility
and waste of war. As the story ends with celebrations of peace, at
least one of the couples appears to have a happy future ahead of
them, but the overall tone of the book is, quite rightly, sombre.
(Kirkus UK)
1915 - Scotland. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures. All too soon the horror of what is to become known as The Great War engulfs them, their friends and the whole village. From the horror of the trenches, to the devastating reality seen daily by those nursing the wounded, they struggle to survive. They are luckier than some - all but one return home - but they know that nothing will ever be the same again.
REMEMBRANCE is a powerful and engrossing novel about love and war, from the Carnegie Medal-winning author Theresa Breslin.
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