A review by aktucker2
What Once Was True by Jean Grainger

3.0

So this book was so good until the very end. Trained soldiers leave an old lady with her cane, a knife with the cheese board, and accidentally drop a gun? The only way for the old lady to accept Kate is when they survive a hostage situation? Just so unnecessary. Wish the author would have stuck to the story of family and class set in Ireland with WW2 as a backdrop without the TV movie ending. And the only person of color in the book is large, handsome, and gentle.... and the author’s lack of character development here is problematic.