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Title: We That Are Left

Author: Clare Clark

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1910. Jessica and Phyllis Melville have grown up at Ellinghurst, their family estate. A headstrong beauty, Jessica longs for London - the glitter and glamor of debutante life - while bookish Phyllis dreams in vain of attending the university. Neither girl questions that it is Theo, their adored brother, whom their mother loves best. Theo eclipses everyone around him, including the diffident Oskar Grunewald, who is a frequent visitor to Ellinghurst.

Fascinated by the house but alternately tormented and ignored by the Melville children, Oskar seeks refuge in Ellinghurst's enormous library. Over the next decade, as the Great War devastates and reshapes their world, the sisters come of age in a country unrecognizable from the idylls of their youth. As they struggle to forge new paths in a world that no longer plays by the old rules, Oskar's life becomes entwined with theirs once again, in ways that will change all of their futures forever.

Critic Reviews:

"Vivid, layered, and provocative period drama about the trade-offs of backing tradition versus letting go." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Obsessed

Read this as a library book but found i couldn't handle not owning it. Was on a list of 15 books to read if you love Downton Abbey-- definitely fulfills that. I have a couple degrees in English and am rarely wowed by current texts, but really loved Clark's descriptive language. Her detailing Oscar's romantic feelings towards [his love interest] are hauntingly accurate and have really left such an impression upon me. A linguistic classic even if the plot feels somewhat stagnant.

Odd and unusual!

This is an odd historical fiction novel. The characters are unusual. They are upper crust but without much money or input into society. The two sisters are odd ducks - one a book worm, nurse, then travels to Northern Africa to dig. She is cold, yet passionate. The other sister is selfish, cruel, and lazy. Other characters are odd too- father obsessed with the castle, mother is just awful, neighbors are users, and Oscar is... I found it fascinating. The novel includes lack of faith, physics, drugs, lies, betrayal, incest, and more. Frankly, it is an unusual story, and so deserves an A++++

A family of secrets...

I think that either British author Clare Clark is writing a sequel to her latest novel, "We That Are Left" or the reader's copy I have left a few pages out. Because the book ends literally in mid sentence. The novel, which is an English Great War family novel, is an adequate read. The Melvilles are a typical family in these novels. Full of secrets, the answers to which are carefully parceled out to each other and the reader. If you're curious, take a chance on "We That Are Left". (And shouldn't it be "We WHO Are Left"?

Another in a series of excellent novels that deal movingly with the effects of WW1 ...

Another in a series of excellent novels that deal movingly with the effects of WW1 on the English. The plot unfolds seamlessly until all the strands of the narrative are neatly, but credibly woven together.

... while longer and it proved to be a very great read and interesting tale

Almost gave up on this one when started but kept at it for a while longer and it proved to be a very great read and interesting tale. Am looking for some sequels now.