The Golden Hour

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I love unique WWII story since so many retell the same story and that, to me anyway is just an oversaturation in the subgenre, so I was delighted to read a fresh story. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). However, I didn't want that to take away from my whole experience which is why it's still getting a 4 from me. And always love when the 18th or 19th or 20th century woman has a 21st century moral and value scale. With a less experienced author, a book of this scale could have been 600+ pages long, but the book was paced and plotted perfectly - leaving just enough left to think about long after.

The ending was rushed and key emotional moments were crammed, taking away from the reader from getting time to digest and deliver a bigger impact on key moments.And more than anything, Manuel shows that vulnerability doesn’t have to be scary and that there is hope and joy even in the darkest and most unsettling of times. She'll make a bundle out of the women with sob stories from other eras that would be revenge copy worthy now. I am definitely looking forward to reading more from this author and will recommend this to lovers of historical fiction! It was not all that long ago that I would have struggled to build a large list of books that accurately and compassionately address mental health.

Williams ( The Summer Wives) illuminates the story with exotic locales and bygone ambience, and seduces with the irresistible Windsors. What Elfriede and Lulu have in common are two different men named Thorpe, but it is how they are connected that intertwines the story together, and Williams seamlessly goes back and forth in time to tell the stories of these two very different women. Williams is an incredible storyteller and I was so delighted to discover what an excellent historical fiction novelist she is as I fell under her spell. Clever and observant she learns who are the players in Nassau from the rich and infamous from the watering holes, the Windsor's functions, and to the Red Cross events.That's a given with Williams; her novels are packed with complex, daring and intriguingly human women. Williams illuminates the story with exotic locales and bygone ambience, and seduces with the irresistible Windsors. I will admit that The Golden Hour wasn't exactly what I was looking for at this time, so that may have influenced my rating a bit.

Nassau is filled with swindlers, spies, racists, traitors, and the power hungry culminating in treason and murder. But swallowing all of that (fiction indeed), the book itself, its author's "eyes" to how she created these two women leads! Instead, they find themselves caught between the intrigues of a villainous Duke, the amusements of a doomed king and queen, and the savagery of the revolution’s leaders. This novel contains all the ingredients for a fascinating work of historical fiction, and it’s penned by a gifted wordsmith.In 1941, the island of Nassau, Bahamas, “is terrible for gossip,” recently widowed Lulu Randolph admits. Which, btw, I did not think became connected without using a "trick" of occluding and immense melodrama.

Together, they all work on projects and their friendship grows (and with Sebastian, it’s clear that there may be more than just friendship there).In December 1943, Lulu is in London determined to find her missing husband, who was arrested by the Germans as a spy. If this were written 20 or even 15 years ago- their outcomes and their justifications would have not had that "righteousness" pokers of superiority stuck in the readers's face, so often. Overall, the story was characterized by a silence and gentleness that did not need a big climax or resolution and the no-drama budding romance between Manuel and Sebastian was so sweet. For when he tells Xanthe and Xavier about this, they realize that Nina may have gone back to one of the most dangerous times and places in history: France on the eve of its revolution. The other woman we follow is Lulu in 1941 just as she is arriving in the Bahamas to cover gossip about the scandalous Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Edward and Wallis Simpson.