When Sarah Lewis awakens one morning to find her husband Tom not in bed beside her, she doesn't worry. Tom sometimes rises early to start work on the farm. She does start to worry though when she notices both pairs of Toms works boots are gone.Sarah is not the only one missing a husband. All the wives in the village awaken to find their husbands have disappeared.
As days turn into weeks the women carry on with the chores of running their farms. Each one hoping that soon the men will return.
The war that has always seemed so far away has now come to them. One day out of blue, 5 German soldiers show up at each of the farms. None of the women tell the soldiers that they have no ideal where their husbands have disappeared to, only that they will return home soon.
As the brutal winter months set in, the women are forced by circumstances to accept by the German soldiers. This is a crime punishable by death.
This book is more than a simple story of a group of women in small Welsh village or a patrol of German soldiers taking up residence in the village. To me it is more of what would you do if a foreign government took control of your country. Would you resist or would you accept that their there and just live with it?
This is an alternate history novel. The setting is during WWII. The Germans have taken over Great Britain and Russia. The Allies (U.S.A.) are forced back into their borders to protect themselves against Japan.
I don't know if I've done this novel justice with my review. I thought the author does a great job with telling story.
Rating:
5/5
publisher:
Nan A. Talese
ISBN:
978-0-385-52210-6
author website:
http://www.owensheers.com/
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