Waterstones A Presumption of Death
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Miraculously right: catching precisely the tone of the relationship. thrilling' - The Times'A must for all Wimsey lovers. an entertaining read' - Northern Echo It's 1940, and while the Second World War rages on, Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers, and the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Then the village's first air raid practice ends with a very real body on the ground - and it's not a war casualty, but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder. And it's not long before a second body is found. Waterstones A Presumption of Death - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781444792911
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ISBN: 9781444792911
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Author: Damaskcat
Rating: 5
Review: It is 1940 and Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children and those of her sister in law, Lady Mary Parker, to the country to Tallboys. Those people who have read Busman's Honeymoon will recall that Tallboys was the scene of Peter and Harriet's somewhat disrupted honeymoon. Here are some of the same characters - Aggie Twitterton, the Rev Simon Goodacre, Mr Puffett and Superintendent Kirk. Then the village experiences its first air raid practice and the all clear reveals a dead body in the middle of the road. It isn't the result of enemy action just an old fashioned murder. A glamorous land girl is dead and there are plenty of people to say she deserved it and that she was probably a German spy. Harriet finds herself involved in the case semi officially as Kirk is very short staffed. When Peter returns from a top secret mission he naturally gets involved too. I thought the author recreates the atmosphere of wartime extremely well and I could feel the tension and the way war infiltrates everything about day to day life. I did find the book a little gloomy but I did think the author has created a worthy successor to Dorothy L Sayers's own work and this book is definitely worth reading.
Author: insomniac
Rating: 3
Review: I loved Sayers’s development of the relationship between Lord Peter and Harriet (Gaudy Night is my all time favourite), and liked Jill Paton Walsh’s contribution to Thrones, Dominations but here the relationship gets too schmaltzy so maybe this is the last for me. Revised November 2020 - I've since added the audible narration which, though I'd already read the book itself, I've started listening to at bedtime. Beautifully read/narrated, this has warmed me to the story with its gentle detail on English life during WWII. I do have some trouble reconciling this Harriet, Lady Peter wife and mother, with the Harriet the Oxford graduate of Gaudy Night, but I so love this fictional couple. Sad at the recent loss of Jill Paton Walsh who kept the Wimseys going. RIP.
