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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Cecelia loves Max but his soldier’s uniform is German, not British, and suddenly the one man she loves is the one man she can’t have.

I was a kid then and I remember how vibrant and fun it was — I had a banana bike and pink and white polka dot bellbottoms and paisley cap and white boots, The Beatles were huge — I remember all the Yellow Submarine posters, magazines, lunchboxes, etc.

This was a very good story about a family of sisters and how they managed through hardships during the war, each in their own way.

When not writing or designing, she can normally be found in the queue at Gatwick heading off somewhere new: she travels all over the world, but most often to her beloved Morocco, which she has been visiting regularly for over ten years. Working in Egypt, she meets Dr Khalid who notices her exceptional skill as a surgical nurse and insists on working with her.Etta elopes to Capri with her Italian love, Carlo, but though her growing bump is real, her marriage certificate is a lie. 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. Once, achieved, I fully embraced the narrative, as we not only follow the Fry sisters but also the intriguing flashbacks from their mother's point of view.

They are from a middle-class family in south London, with a father who runs a photography studio and an Anglo-Italian mother whom we learn more about in flashbacks to Capri in 1891-2, and who, we discover, hides a secret that she is determined will never be revealed. Love In A Time Of War is the first in an expected trilogy which follows the lives of the three Fry sisters. I wasn't too sure how I would like it, since the beginning was a little slow and I had a hard time getting into the story.I thought the romance between Cecelia and Max was particularly well done because it showed that really England and Germany were close and cooperative before the war - no wonder these two characters fell in love. Book Two will cover the Twenties and Thirties, while Book Three will span World War Two into the Seventies. Cecelia becomes a photographer and journalist writing of the dangerous work being done by women as the men were away fighting. The twins – Jessie and Etta – are a few years younger than Celie, but both have passions that define them. Little do they realise how their own decisions echo the choices their mother also faced at a similar age.