2025/038: Small Bomb at Dimperley — Lissa Evans

2025/038: Small Bomb at Dimperley — Lissa Evans

...you couldn’t give half the population a gun and send them away for five years and then expect their slippers still to fit when they came home. [loc. 1456]

Set in 1945, this novel centres on Dimperley Manor, the gently crumbling ancestral seat of the Vere-Thissett family. Felix, the dashing RAF squadron leader, has been declared dead; his wife and two teenage daughters have returned from California, where they've spent the war. His younger brother Valentine, who's dyslexic, returns from his own wartime service to find that he's now Sir Valentine( Read more... )