2020/026: Their Finest Hour and a Half -- Lissa Evans

2020/026: Their Finest Hour and a Half -- Lissa Evans

Every night was serious: you crouched in the dark and the engines stuttered overhead, and then along came morning, and you were still alive, and once you’d got over that surprise you prepared the breakfast and accidentally dropped the only egg on the floor, and for a moment or two that was serious ... [loc. 1680]

I enjoyed the recent movie version (review here) and bought the novel: have just got around to reading it, in my mini-season of Crisis Novels, and found it a pleasant read. Lissa Evans' story is light-hearted, comic and romantic, without trivialising or romanticising the Blitz, the Dunkirk evacuation or the sheer misery of wartime life. ( no spoilers )