Book: Flatlands
Author: Sue Hubbard
Pages: 272
This is my 238th read for the year
What Amazon says:
Freda is a 12 year old evacuee from East London, who has been sent away at the start of the war, leaving behind everything familiar to her, to escape the expected German bombing. In her new temporary home in Lincolnshire, Freda finds herself billeted with a strange, cold and ultimately abusive couple, whose lives mirror the barren landscape in which they live a hand to mouth existence, based upon subsistence farming and poaching. There, deprived of any warmth, she meets a young man - Philip Rhayader - a conscientious objector who has left Oxford and his prospective vcation in the church following a nervous breakdown. Together they explore the wild, beautiful landscape of the Wash, teeming with migrating birds, and nurse an injured goose back to health. As they do so, Philip introduces Freda to the wonders of the natural world and its enduring power to heal.
This was a pretty good book. It was an easy read and flowed well. Freda and Philip are very likable characters. The book is written as a journal that Freda is writing as an old woman accounting for her time during the war. The situation with Freda and her time with her billeted family is hard to read.
Stars: 4
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