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Title: The Amazing Interlude

Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrator: Laurie Klein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-14

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Winter 1914. Sara Lee Kennedy reads the newspaper account of the war in Europe and is appalled. Others in her sheltered Pennsylvania home are interested only in her coming marriage to solid, self-centered, Harvey. Struggling with compassion, Sara Lee feels compelled to help the suffering Belgian Army whose country is overrun by Germans. She defies her parents and travels alone to the front lines to help anyway she can. It is there she meets Henri, a Belgian officer. Eventually Sara is forced to choose between two admirers, Harvey and Henri.

Members Reviews:

Very good, very touching

There must have been a lot of dust around when I read this, because I got a lump in my throat about three paragraphs in and it stayed there the whole way through. This novel is a superb evocation of small-town America on the eve of the Great War, and of our naive but determined heroine's adventures running a soup kitchen for soldiers just behind the front lines. Rinehart's prose is perfect, and although the heroine is perhaps a bit too good, Belgian officer Henri and her fiance back home, Harvey, are well-drawn and very much alive.

World War I Love Story

This story dates itself in regard to the relations between men and women and their roles. You can tell it was written early in the 20th century and for a female audience. Although the main character,a woman, does break out of her traditional role, she is still very much the "type" who would stay at home and do as she was told. Her personality seems rather submissive while her actions are those of a much more liberated spirit. In this respect, the story doesn't quite ring true and is more of a wish fulfillment fantasy. The western front of WWI is merely a setting for this unlikely romance to play out. Far more interesting than the relationship part of the book are the accounts of what it was like on the front during World War I and the activities of soldiers, citizenry and the men who performed espionage operations. Apparently, the author, Mary Roberts Rinehart, was a war correspondent on the Belgian front during World War I, so this provides the only notes of verisimilitude in the story. So she certainly did know what it was like to be a woman doing a job in a place were women were usually not likely to be. Worth reading for that alone.

Love this author

Love this author. I'm trying to read all of her books in the order they were written. Thanks for offering free downloads of her books.

Loved this book!!

I've got so many books on my kindle that sometimes I forget to read the older stuff. I am very happy that I happened upon this book. I think I've read Mary Roberts Rinehart before and picked up several of her books at once. This story really affected me. I loved Sara Lee and her determination to help even though it wasn't "her fight". She was very strong although as often as possible she was depicted as passive. But when she finally allowed herself to think for herself and not worry about other people's opinions, She matured into a lovely giving woman. I have often, in these days of war and worries, wished I could do something to help like she did. She was selfless and willing to go all out to help the Belgian people. I wish I were as Brave as she was and not as cynical and self-defeating as I am. She is an inspiration even in these modern times.

More than a charming story of love in war time

More than a charming story of love in war time.