paulataua 's review for:

The Four Feathers by Gary Hoppenstand, A.E.W. Mason

3.0

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Harry Feversham decides to quit his regiment just as it called to action in the Sudan. He receives three white feathers, a sign of cowardice, from this fellow officers, with another feather from his wife-to-be. Of course, he has to find a way to return the feathers. I had absolutely no interest in ‘empire’ until I did a course at university on popular fiction and film in the interwar years. I must have watched at least two or three interwar versions of this movie but never read the book which was written and published around the turn of the 20th century. For me, it was the welcome experience of a well written book enhanced by the excellent narration of Ralph Cosham (my ‘hero’ narrator from the early Armand Gamache novels of Louise Penny). A three star read that gave me four star satisfaction.