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	title:	Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime
	author:	Xandra Bingley
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	HarperPerennial
	released:	June 5, 2006
	isbn:	0007149514
	isbn-13:	9780007149513

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Customer Reviews
An absolute delight - Rated I came accross this book by pure chance and it was like finding a pearl in an oyster. I love this book and the style that Xandra Bingley used, it gave me a real sense of time. The descriptions were so detailed and I have to say when I finished I really missed Xandra and her family. The social contrasts of the time were enlightening to someone who didn't live through the period. A rare find indeed. Overrated - Rated Although this book is not without a certain charm, I was baffled by the fulsome praise it received from the press, much of which was, in my eyes, unjustified. The narrative is in the present tense, which is presumably intended to convey that the story was written as events happened, but is surprisingly distracting and prevents any real rhythm from emerging. Even diaries, which are of course written in the present, aren't exclusively or even mainly written in the present tense. There is also a kind of staccato, disjointed element to the writing which I found to be annoying. The photographs are charming and help create an authentic atmosphere of the period. There are also quite a lot of isolated desciptions of places, people and objects that are delightful. Overall though, unusual as the book is, nothing saves it from being lightweight and hard to get involved in.

Customer Reviews

An absolute delight - Rated 5/5
I came accross this book by pure chance and it was like finding a pearl in an oyster. I love this book and the style that Xandra Bingley used, it gave me a real sense of time. The descriptions were so detailed and I have to say when I finished I really missed Xandra and her family. The social contrasts of the time were enlightening to someone who didn't live through the period. A rare find indeed.

Overrated - Rated 2/5
Although this book is not without a certain charm, I was baffled by the fulsome praise it received from the press, much of which was, in my eyes, unjustified.

The narrative is in the present tense, which is presumably intended to convey that the story was written as events happened, but is surprisingly distracting and prevents any real rhythm from emerging. Even diaries, which are of course written in the present, aren't exclusively or even mainly written in the present tense. There is also a kind of staccato, disjointed element to the writing which I found to be annoying.

The photographs are charming and help create an authentic atmosphere of the period. There are also quite a lot of isolated desciptions of places, people and objects that are delightful. Overall though, unusual as the book is, nothing saves it from being lightweight and hard to get involved in.