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It is 1910. Jessica and Phyllis Melville have grown up at Ellinghurst, their family estate. A headstrong beauty, Jessica longs for London - the glitter and glamor of debutante life - while bookish Phyllis dreams in vain of attending the university. Neither girl questions that it is Theo, their adored brother, whom their mother loves best. Theo eclipses everyone around him, including the diffident Oskar Grunewald, who is a frequent visitor to Ellinghurst.
Fascinated by the house but alternately tormented and ignored by the Melville children, Oskar seeks refuge in Ellinghurst's enormous library. Over the next decade, as the Great War devastates and reshapes their world, the sisters come of age in a country unrecognizable from the idylls of their youth. As they struggle to forge new paths in a world that no longer plays by the old rules, Oskar's life becomes entwined with theirs once again, in ways that will change all of their futures forever.
We That Are Left, by Clare Clark - Amazon Sales Rank: #48626 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 1006 minutes
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. WWI and the British Aristocracy By AntKathy Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a preview copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.If you are a fan of the PBS series "Downton Abbey", you will enjoy Clare Clark's WE THAT ARE LEFT. The book takes place in England during the era of the Great War. Aubrey Melville is a baron, with a son, Theo, and two daughters, Phyllis and Jessica. He and his cold-fish wife Eleanor maintain a strained relationship. Also living at the family estate of Ellinghurst are Oscar Greenwood and his mother.The heir to the title and estate, Theo, signs up for duty with the British military, while his sisters beg their parents to let them be useful. Eventually, bookish Phyllis volunteers to work in a London hospital for veterans, and party girl Jessica heads to London for a job in publishing, both challenging the roles set for young ladies of the aristocracy. Oscar, the youngest of the household, and his mother leave the estate while he finishes school and trains for the army.But, as is the case with so many grand estates and aristocratic families during WWI, society changes. An entire generation of eligible young men are lost to the war or the flu. There are no workers left to run the estates, and many titles are lost when heirs are killed in action.Because of his age, Oscar is not called up for enlistment, and instead lands a place at Cambridge studying Physics. He is a mathematical and science prodigy, challenged by the advancements in the fields being made by great contemporary minds like Einstein. Much of the book discusses both mathematics and science, which is a little daunting, but nonetheless interesting, even to someone who doesn't care for these fields.I would rate the book higher, because it is well-written, interesting and full of surprises. However, so much of it is similar to "Downton Abbey", it is not an entirely original story. It does, however, reflect the changes and values of the time, which greatly affect current and future generations. Worth reading, especially if you are fond of this period in history, and the effects of the Great War on Britain and the aristocracy.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Every Man You Might Have Married Is Already Dead By Roger Brunyate "Every man you might have married is already dead." So laments Jessica Melville, looking into her mirror in 1919. She has finally got her wish, broken free of her family's battlemented estate in Hampshire, and come up to London as a bachelor girl, only to find herself attending balls where all the men seem to have either training wheels or retreads. Phyllis, her bookish elder sister, has no interest in the marriage market. She left home at the first opportunity to volunteer in a hospital for the war-wounded, and is now off in Egypt working on Howard Carter's search for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The changes that the Great War brought to the lives of women is one of the chief themes of Clare Clark's absorbing period romance.But it is not the only one. Another character, Oscar Greenwood (who bears much the same relationship to Phyllis and Jessica as Robbie Turner does to the two sisters in Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT), goes up to Cambridge to read Physics. It is a heady time, dominated by Rutherford's experiments with the atom, the dawn of quantum mechanics, and the impact of Einstein's theories of Relativity. I found these chapters among the most interesting in the book, as Clark's picture of Cambridge is so accurate, and happens to focus on my own college, Trinity. My father, also a scientist, would have been Oscar's exact contemporary in 1919. Clark is also good with other topics of the period -- spiritualism, the suffrage movement, jazz, drugs, and the club scene -- though my interest in these was less personal.I wasn't sure that I would enjoy the book at first. The prologue, set at a funeral in 1920, was downright confusing, with eight proper names on the first page alone, three more on the next page, and a further eight at the start of the next chapter. It is quite impossible to work out who they all were, or how they related to one another. I now realize that this was deliberate; the questions of who dies and who will end up with whom will reverberate throughout the book, and will not be resolved until the very end. Once past the first two chapters, though, I found the pace rapidly accelerating, so that even 450 pages came to seem short. Reading the book as a historical romance from a specialist in the genre (each of Clark's novels explores a different period), I succumbed without resistance, and was coming close to a five-star rating.In the end, though, I am settling for four stars, but a solid four. Part of the reason is that the resolution of the romance involves a last-minute surprise revelation that I think is inadequately prepared, and gives rise to some morally uncomfortable moments that may shock many readers. Another, when it comes down to it, is that for all Clare Clark's brilliance at recreating the period, the development and outcome of the plot are not as closely tied in with the time as they might be. But it is still an interesting couple of years looked at in some depth, and an absorbing story, no matter what the period.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Blah Characters By LAURI CRUMLEY COATES I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it. The writing is lovely, the prose lyrical and the descriptive text throughout is well done. The characters, however, are a different story. Not exactly unlikable, just I guess unremarkable. Unremarkable in that no one here stands out. I have to feel something for at least the main characters, like, dislike, or at least a mild interest. I couldn't work that up, and therefore the book never really held my interest. I continued slogging through for quite a well, but stopped reading altogether when I realized it was a chore, not a pleasure. Life is to short for that, my friend.
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