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A review by lizaroo71
Bleakly Hall by Elaine di Rollo
4.0
Bleakly Hall has seen better days. It is a hydrotherapy hotel and its clientele is much like the building: dilapidated. Roberta Montgomery and Ada worked together on the battlefields in WWI. Ada gets Monty a nursing job at Bleakly Hall and it is here that the story picks up. Monty is interested in one of the hotel's guests: Captain Foxley. He is elusive and abrasive, but Monty knows that he knew a friend of hers Sophie. And Monty means to remind him of just how misguided his actions were in regards to her friend.
The story takes place in the aftermath of the war. The proprietors of the hotel are brothers that fought in the war together. We see the characters in their interaction at Bleakly Hall and we get flashbacks of what occurred on the battlefields.
I think the narrative suffers a little when it switches from present to past, but I found the characters interesting and the time period one I haven't often found in novels I read.
The story takes place in the aftermath of the war. The proprietors of the hotel are brothers that fought in the war together. We see the characters in their interaction at Bleakly Hall and we get flashbacks of what occurred on the battlefields.
I think the narrative suffers a little when it switches from present to past, but I found the characters interesting and the time period one I haven't often found in novels I read.