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Title: In the Dark
Author: Deborah Moggach
Narrator: Henrietta Garden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-17
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
It is the year 1916, and pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby but genteel South London boarding house while her husband is off at war. Her 14-year old son Ralph dotes on his mother, but has adolescent thoughts he'd rather hide from her.
Winnie, the young maid, is a homely, good-hearted country girl, rejected by Archie, the cheeky butcher's boy before he too is called up. And when the dreaded telegram arrives at the house, things turn from difficult to desperate for the two young women....
Critic Reviews:
"A deliciously vivid portrait." (Financial Times)
"An accomplished story teller with a finely tuned ear for dialogue." (Herald)
Members Reviews:
In the dark good.
Good but not her best. Good character depth.
Like Nightingale, there is a war time setting with ...
This novel is the anidote to the contrived plot of Hanna's Nightingale. Like Nightingale, there is a war time setting with women managing while most able-bodied men are enlisted or have been killed in battle. But the story lacks Nightingale's plot inconsistencies and weirdly modern anachronisms. The characters are well defined and memorable. I came to care for them. I was concerned for Winnie and Ralph in particular. Wonderful plot twists and a satisfying conclusion.
Life on the Home Front in WWI
London in WWI, a down-market neighborhood, a lodging house run by a new widow (husband killed in France) who attracts the attention of the local butcher - a big, boastful, ambitious man deeply involved in the black market. The widow is beautiful, refined and renting a house that the prescient butcher believes will make an excellent hotel when the survivors of the war come home and find a housing shortage and - for the upper classes - a severe servant shortage. (Residential hotels and lodging houses were very common in 20th century Britain.)They marry (hence a few brief but definitely explicit sex scenes); there's a murder. The writing is workmanlike. The occupants of the house provide much of the interest: the blind Communist, with a secret; the ruined survivor of a gas attack and the little daughter who cares for him while her mother earns a living; Winnie, the country girl who does most of the work; and the teenage son through whose eyes the story unfolds.
ZERO STARS IF IT WERE AN OPTION!!!
In The Dark by Deborah Moggach was an awful read. The characters were one dimensional, dark, depressing, lacked any redeeming qualities, and just plain awful. I could not invest in their stories because I could not care less what happened to any of them. Eithne, the mother in this story was so selfish. I am certainly NOT a perfect mother but the way Eithne put Neville before her son disgusted me. The characters had no values and the characters Atheist views throughout the book bothered me. It took me weeks to read this painfully boring book. I just have a hard time putting a book away without finishing it. I will not be reading any other books from this author!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The title doesn't fit, perhaps 'Butcher and his bone' would've summed it up better, lol
The titles doesn't fit the story in my opinion. I could see how the author might have considered all of he secrets that people keep in this shabby boarding house as ,keeping people in the dark', but it sounds like a thriller.
It is an odd little story with lots of sexually frustrated characters.
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Title: In the Dark
Author: Deborah Moggach
Narrator: Henrietta Garden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-17
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
It is the year 1916, and pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby but genteel South London boarding house while her husband is off at war. Her 14-year old son Ralph dotes on his mother, but has adolescent thoughts he'd rather hide from her.
Winnie, the young maid, is a homely, good-hearted country girl, rejected by Archie, the cheeky butcher's boy before he too is called up. And when the dreaded telegram arrives at the house, things turn from difficult to desperate for the two young women....
Critic Reviews:
"A deliciously vivid portrait." (Financial Times)
"An accomplished story teller with a finely tuned ear for dialogue." (Herald)
Members Reviews:
In the dark good.
Good but not her best. Good character depth.
Like Nightingale, there is a war time setting with ...
This novel is the anidote to the contrived plot of Hanna's Nightingale. Like Nightingale, there is a war time setting with women managing while most able-bodied men are enlisted or have been killed in battle. But the story lacks Nightingale's plot inconsistencies and weirdly modern anachronisms. The characters are well defined and memorable. I came to care for them. I was concerned for Winnie and Ralph in particular. Wonderful plot twists and a satisfying conclusion.
Life on the Home Front in WWI
London in WWI, a down-market neighborhood, a lodging house run by a new widow (husband killed in France) who attracts the attention of the local butcher - a big, boastful, ambitious man deeply involved in the black market. The widow is beautiful, refined and renting a house that the prescient butcher believes will make an excellent hotel when the survivors of the war come home and find a housing shortage and - for the upper classes - a severe servant shortage. (Residential hotels and lodging houses were very common in 20th century Britain.)They marry (hence a few brief but definitely explicit sex scenes); there's a murder. The writing is workmanlike. The occupants of the house provide much of the interest: the blind Communist, with a secret; the ruined survivor of a gas attack and the little daughter who cares for him while her mother earns a living; Winnie, the country girl who does most of the work; and the teenage son through whose eyes the story unfolds.
ZERO STARS IF IT WERE AN OPTION!!!
In The Dark by Deborah Moggach was an awful read. The characters were one dimensional, dark, depressing, lacked any redeeming qualities, and just plain awful. I could not invest in their stories because I could not care less what happened to any of them. Eithne, the mother in this story was so selfish. I am certainly NOT a perfect mother but the way Eithne put Neville before her son disgusted me. The characters had no values and the characters Atheist views throughout the book bothered me. It took me weeks to read this painfully boring book. I just have a hard time putting a book away without finishing it. I will not be reading any other books from this author!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The title doesn't fit, perhaps 'Butcher and his bone' would've summed it up better, lol
The titles doesn't fit the story in my opinion. I could see how the author might have considered all of he secrets that people keep in this shabby boarding house as ,keeping people in the dark', but it sounds like a thriller.
It is an odd little story with lots of sexually frustrated characters.