Love in a Time of War: The best new sweeping, escapist historical fiction book release of the year!: Book 1 (The Three Fry Sisters)

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This fabulous read introduces the Fry sisters Cecelia and twins Jessie and Etta and the very different paths they take following the outbreak of world war 1. Like Milly the Fry's maid, she starts working in the dangerous ammunition factory, handling TNT and they became known as the canary girls.

If you want to read a story about a family and their journey to overcome adversity, you need to read Love in a Time of War. Amateur artist Etta is the most playful and falls in love with flamboyant Italian Carlo and elopes with him to Capri.

Celie helps her father in his photography studio, and he’s busy taking portraits of young men going off to fight in, The Great War.

I am assuming there will be other books in the series but for a book that long not a whole lot happened and the story could have been told just as effectively in half the number of pages. A sublimely written epic that takes readers from London to Cairo and Italy, Love in a Time of War is a beguiling novel set during the First World War that is full of captivating female characters forging forward in an uncertain world armed with determination, resilience and hope. I was invested the minute I knew this was set in Italy and Egypt as they are my two favourite places for an adventure. Some of the horrors of war are mentioned (and war is a key component) but the focus is more on the characters on their choices.I would like to thank Adrienne Chinn, One More Chapter and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Jessica’s determination to forge her own path in life and be judged on her ability rather than her gender, represents the independence that many women were fighting for. I really, really enjoyed this book and felt quite sad when I reached its end and am looking forward to the next book featuring this family. This, for me, was such a lovely and engaging read, it was sad, heart breaking, poignant and yet a very well written book that had my attention from the first page to the last and held it all the way through.

The twins – Jessie and Etta – are a few years younger than Celie, but both have passions that define them. Celie, the eldest, works in the photography studio, is an ardent suffragist, and is in love with her German tutor, Max. Her character is the epitome of determination, but she faces difficulty while trying to operate her own clinic. Etta is an artist but after meeting the love of her life Carlo in the course of her work she elopes with him to Capri hiding the truth behind her sudden departure. but because it blazed new ground for those of us who believe provocative fiction is more than just an explicit cover.I was gifted this advance copy by Adrienne Chinn, HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter, and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review. She has fallen in love with her young German teacher and must decide whether to spend the summer with Max in Germany or in London working for the suffragist movement. The first of a three-book series, Love In A Time Of War, follows the lives of three Anglo-Italian sisters through World War 1. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, following the intertwining stories of the Fry sisters through the Suffrage protests, the Great War, and their own romances and life-changing experiences. She meets and falls in love but her life takes her on a different path than she would have expected, as it does for everyone in this book.

Whilst reading ‘Love In A Time Of War’ I did find that I ended up going through every emotion that the characters were going through. We also get the story of their mother as a young woman in flashbacks, and (or course) it ties in nicely with her daughters' lives. This isn't my usual type of book to read but after reading the blurb I thought I'd give it a go and I am so glad that I did do ! If you like slow moving long historical fiction novels with zero closure then this is the perfect book for you 😂😂😂.Enjoyed this story of the three Fry sisters, set in WWI (a nice change for the numerous WWII women's fiction stories). Love In A Time Of War follows the three Fry sisters through the long war years, it was a time of great change, young women left home for the first time, traveled overseas unchaperoned, employed in jobs that men traditionally did and many decided they were no longer happy working as domestics. As might be expected from the first instalment in a trilogy, Love in a Time of War ends at significant moments in the lives of the sisters. Working in Egypt, she meets Dr Khalid who notices her exceptional skill as a surgical nurse and insists on working with her. Adrienne does a fabulous job of portraying, through these three very different sisters, the spirit of all women who went on to forge new lives for themselves during and after this time of war.