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Title: The Faithful
Author: Juliet West
Narrator: Grace Andrews
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
As Britain is pulled towards war, the secrets within two families threaten to tear them apart, in the new novel from Juliet West, The Faithful....
July 1935. In the village of Aldwick on the Sussex coast, 16-year-old Hazel faces a long, dull summer with just her self-centred mother, Francine, for company. But then Francine decamps to London with her lover, Charles; Oswald Mosley's blackshirts arrive in Aldwick; and Hazel's summer suddenly becomes more interesting. She finds herself befriended by two very different people: Lucia, an upper-class blackshirt, passionate about the cause; and Tom, a young working-class boy, increasingly scornful of Mosley's rhetoric. In the end, though, it is Tom who wins Hazel's heart - and Hazel who breaks his.
Autumn 1936. Now living in London, Hazel has grown up fast over the past year. But an encounter with Tom sends her into freefall. He must never know why she cut off all contact last summer, betraying the promises they'd made. Yet Hazel isn't the only one with secrets. Nor is she the only one with reason to keep the two of them apart....
From the beaches of Sussex to the battlefields of civil war Spain, The Faithful is a rich and gripping tale of love, deception and desire....
Members Reviews:
Set in Aldwick, Sussex - a poignant tale of war
Iâve been waiting for Julietâs next novel since I read Before the Fall and this was worth waiting for. She completely immerses you in the life and time of those youngsters growing up under the shadow of war and the political stance of Mosley and the blackshirts. From the Pears posters to the Pall Mall cigarettes, this is as evocative as they come.
Woven into this is a story of lost love, lies and hidden secrets. The scene is set in a little village of Aldwick in Sussex and then to London following the march of the Mosley blackshirts and their effect on the population at the time. Growing up then must have been difficult and Hazel has more to cope with than most. Sussex farming life compared to the excitement and danger of London. Morals and parental boundaries out of the window, the story weaves its way around your heartstrings and chokes you up.
The writing in this novel really is quite something â lyrical and poetic. What a tangled web we weave I said after finishing this. And itâs true. Juliet has woven something very special, evocative and moving. A step into the past of politics, young love, frustration and the need for freedom. The Faithful is a snapshot of young life, young love under the shadow of repression.
Left and Right Romance
'The Faithful' is an engrossing, not too demanding story about coming-of-age against the context of an interesting period of British history - the 1930s, with the rise and fall of the British Union of Fascists. It's a story that follows two young people and their respective mothers as main characters, and certainly kept me gripped through all the family secrets, romantic tangles, questions of loyalty and human misunderstandings.
I found the way the author uses the very human motivations that the various characters have for their involvement in politics of various shades most compelling and believable.
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Title: The Faithful
Author: Juliet West
Narrator: Grace Andrews
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
As Britain is pulled towards war, the secrets within two families threaten to tear them apart, in the new novel from Juliet West, The Faithful....
July 1935. In the village of Aldwick on the Sussex coast, 16-year-old Hazel faces a long, dull summer with just her self-centred mother, Francine, for company. But then Francine decamps to London with her lover, Charles; Oswald Mosley's blackshirts arrive in Aldwick; and Hazel's summer suddenly becomes more interesting. She finds herself befriended by two very different people: Lucia, an upper-class blackshirt, passionate about the cause; and Tom, a young working-class boy, increasingly scornful of Mosley's rhetoric. In the end, though, it is Tom who wins Hazel's heart - and Hazel who breaks his.
Autumn 1936. Now living in London, Hazel has grown up fast over the past year. But an encounter with Tom sends her into freefall. He must never know why she cut off all contact last summer, betraying the promises they'd made. Yet Hazel isn't the only one with secrets. Nor is she the only one with reason to keep the two of them apart....
From the beaches of Sussex to the battlefields of civil war Spain, The Faithful is a rich and gripping tale of love, deception and desire....
Members Reviews:
Set in Aldwick, Sussex - a poignant tale of war
Iâve been waiting for Julietâs next novel since I read Before the Fall and this was worth waiting for. She completely immerses you in the life and time of those youngsters growing up under the shadow of war and the political stance of Mosley and the blackshirts. From the Pears posters to the Pall Mall cigarettes, this is as evocative as they come.
Woven into this is a story of lost love, lies and hidden secrets. The scene is set in a little village of Aldwick in Sussex and then to London following the march of the Mosley blackshirts and their effect on the population at the time. Growing up then must have been difficult and Hazel has more to cope with than most. Sussex farming life compared to the excitement and danger of London. Morals and parental boundaries out of the window, the story weaves its way around your heartstrings and chokes you up.
The writing in this novel really is quite something â lyrical and poetic. What a tangled web we weave I said after finishing this. And itâs true. Juliet has woven something very special, evocative and moving. A step into the past of politics, young love, frustration and the need for freedom. The Faithful is a snapshot of young life, young love under the shadow of repression.
Left and Right Romance
'The Faithful' is an engrossing, not too demanding story about coming-of-age against the context of an interesting period of British history - the 1930s, with the rise and fall of the British Union of Fascists. It's a story that follows two young people and their respective mothers as main characters, and certainly kept me gripped through all the family secrets, romantic tangles, questions of loyalty and human misunderstandings.
I found the way the author uses the very human motivations that the various characters have for their involvement in politics of various shades most compelling and believable.