A review by valpogal
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

4.0

At the beginning, I wasn't sure if I was going to really like this one...it seemed so dark. But war is dark, and horrible, and unimaginable. This is a compelling story of a Polish couple trying to survive during WWII and the story of the same couple trying to put their lives together after the war. It really did grab me. I think the style the author chose of going back and forth, not only between the major characters, but between time periods, threw me a bit at first but ended up being incredibly effective. Had she chosen a straight time line, the story would have lost much of its emotional punch; it would have been focused more on what happened than what happened to the people that these things happened to. This would be a good book club read.