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A review by bookpossum
The Flight Of The Maidens by Jane Gardam
4.0
In the English summer of 1946, three young women in Yorkshire are experiencing their last months before going to University. This is the story of what they do in those months and the decisions they make. If this sounds mundane, it is anything but that, although Jane Gardam writes so beautifully that she could make a telephone directory interesting.
The shadows of both the World Wars still fall on their young lives; two whose fathers survived the Great War but continued to live with its horrors, and one who is German Jewish. Her life was saved by the Kindertransport, but she has to learn to deal with the fate of her family back in Hamburg.
Jane Gardam herself would have had some of these experiences and known of others. Everything she writes rings true.
Highly recommended.
The shadows of both the World Wars still fall on their young lives; two whose fathers survived the Great War but continued to live with its horrors, and one who is German Jewish. Her life was saved by the Kindertransport, but she has to learn to deal with the fate of her family back in Hamburg.
Jane Gardam herself would have had some of these experiences and known of others. Everything she writes rings true.
Highly recommended.