![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Sarah Waters’s writing is outstanding with a rich and detailed prose. The book is quite slow, and despite the wartime settings, not an awful lot happens. She was my favorite characters of all, the one that felt most true and honorable. I especially loved learning about Kay’s ambulance job during the war and rooted so much for her. The war serves as a horrifying context, especially in the last part of the book from 1941, giving the atmosphere and relationships more gravitas and a sense of urgency. ![]() The connections between them all their relationships are slowly unraveled through the backward storytelling. The storyline follows the fragmented lives and the strange interconnections between Kay, Helen and Julia, three lesbians Viv, a straight woman and Duncan, her brother, whose sexuality is ambiguous. The story begins in London in 1947 and works backwards to the end in 1941. ![]()
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