A review by samstillreading
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans

3.0

I'm not really sure what it is about this book, but something just didn't seem to work for me. Maybe it was that the blurb on the back makes it seem that it's all about Catrin when really, she's not the main character but just one along with Edith and Ambrose. Maybe it's that you couldn't see the characters linking up until halfway through. Perhaps it's the lack of description and horror of bomb strewn London. I just know that I wanted to desperately like this (out of a sense of patriotism perhaps?) but it didn't come together.
The idea of making a positive wartime English film as a plot is great but the characters seem to come off as cold, in particular Catrin. Perhaps it's a stiff upper lip. Ambrose was probably the highlight of this book. It seems a little unfinished, rough around the edges.