This Real Night
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 | Uncategorized
I stumbled across Rebecca West’s sequel to The Fountain Overflows at the library. What a find - it is a fantastic book. The children from the first book are now reaching young adulthood, having to accept their father’s death and the way in which they are different from other people in the world, and each other, too. It is in the age just before war, and somehow they know everything will be ended by the war, everything that is important in their lives.
She is such a wonderful writer; her characters are people you wish you knew, and her insights evoke smiles and tears from the reader. I loved this book and I hope I can dig out the final unfinished novel in the trilogy.
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