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thoroughly enjoyed this book and have reread it several times, over the years, I have always wished that it would be made into a miniseries, as a movie wouldn't do it justice, Manías mías pero no soy muy fan de las narraciones en primera persona y se me hizo difícil engancharme en la historia, no sos vos, soy yo.
A beautiful story taking you though the boer war and the great war, Heartbreaking accounts from the front and the nursing tents and a sometimes sad and sometimes happy tale of unequal love after the war, I recently found a used copy of this old favorite on Abe Books, and what fun to read it again almostyears later, The writing style is of an era, the female protagonist a bit subservient to her male partner, yet it is the sort of sweeping saga I grew up loving, and why I reread Rosamunde Pilcher and the like.
Lady Helena's experiences as a nurse during WWI are especially vivid, An engrossing story about the First World War and it's aftermath, The first/of this book were amazing and gave me all the WW/Downton Abbey vibes I was craving,star feels quite honestly, But then that last third happened where it was nothing but sex scene after sex scene and I just needed it to be over, Queue “DISAPPOINTED” meme
I read this book when I was a teenager, I was totally drawn in by the storyline, the historical setting and finally the slightly erotic romance, I read it twice, then the book went missing, I suspect my Mother sent it off to Vinnies!

I remembered this story for years, but could not find it even after doing some google searches for the title.
FINALLY I came across it a week ago and promptly purchased it and started reading it the day it arrived,

I loved it, Every page of it. It transports me back into time, I laugh, I cry lots and I love the steamy bits,

Best romance novel I have ever read,

The novel tells the story of Helena, a girl from a wealthy aristocratic family in England, It spans from her childhood, showing her love and devotion of her brothers, through her time as a nurse in World Warand into her marriage to a commoner, Ben Holden.
Must beyears since I read this book, Can't remember a great deal about the plot but I do remember being completely sucked into it and not being able to put it down then feeling bereft at the end! Must reread one day.
Don't read this book if you are already feeling blue, The depths of despair this story of a woman's systematic physical, emotional, and spiritual breakdown due to the impact of war and its aftermath, will surely put you over the edge if you are already fragile.
I cried pretty much every chapter from the beginning of World War I and way beyond, which was somehow worse, The writing is fantastic, the characterization of the first person protagonist so palpable that you are literally experiencing every emotion, stress, and imbalance, I don't normally go for books with so much death, tragedy and horror but I went into it blind and once I got started, there was no way I could put it down.
I want to read her other books and I am crossing my fingers that they won't be as dark otherwise I may have to ration them to one per decade so I don't completely lose my mind.
This was one of my teenage favorite book, I cried so much! Its an epic heartbreaking story, but dont worry: with a HEA, Before there was Downton Abbey there was this novel, There

are many parallels in the stories, but think of Sybil and her chauffeur for the story line in this novel,
This novel sparked my interest in WWI, the brave nurses and soldiers who were wounded and saved on the Western front,
I read this novel more thanyears ago on a drive back to Virginia from Massachusetts, I could not put it down, reading it into the dark and trying to read by the lights on the highway, After the all night drive I wanted to stay up and read more, but made myself go to bed, A wonderful novel with a hopeful ending, A secret favourite, have read it so many times that the pages are falling out of my copy, I love a wartime romance Absolutely loved this when I first read it in thesgt I still enjoy the story and the characters today.

SYNOPSIS:
Lady Helena Girvan was born into privilege, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, assured of a life of safety and comfort, Then World War descends.
Volunteering as an auxiliary nurse in Londons gritty East End, Helena quickly loses her naivety, and her illusions, But she has something even more terrifying in store not only the bloody battlefields of France but deep fears about the safety of the men she loves: her friends, her brothers and her husband.


If you enjoy good quality historical novels, this is one to read,
It is not a light read, It is the story of a woman's systematic physical, emotional, and spiritual breakdown due to the impact of war and its aftermath, As a result ot can feel very realistic, As the reader you experienced the pain along with Helena,
I was totally drawn in by the storyline, the historical setting and finally the slightly erotic romance,

Not as highbrow as Testament of Youth by Vera Britten but it's setting and experiences of the female character are very similar I don't know what it is about this book that I like it so much, but I do.
. . Read it numerous times and it still always hits the right spot when I'm need of a bit quick fix of romantic saga This was a LONG book.
Took me a full month to read it, but it was good, It was marked by others as a Historical Romance, but I would consider it more WWI fiction, It tells the story of the life of an aristocrat girl who grew to a woman at the time of World War I, The story began when Helena was about three inand covers through to, She was born to typical selfish parents of her class and was raised by servants, In many ways she was weak, but she was also loyal to those she loved, That gave her strength when she really needed it, Unfortunately, with the war, strength was needed frequently, So much death! Not a light read, It felt very realistic. I experienced the pain with Helena and cried many times, Reread for the umpteenth time, Just as satisfactorily enjoyable as ever, on a par with Gone with the Wind for epic revisiting,
in AprilI wrote: I don't know how long this book sat on my shelf, me thinking I had read it I took it down thinking to charity it, read it "just in case" and then umpteen times thereafter.
Don't know what was so compelling: it is a period I am anyway drawn to, but the relationship between Ben and Helena has to play a part.
Certainly in my top three all time favourites, which feels, somehow, embarrassing! One of my favorite romances of all time, Tied with Gone With the Wind, synopsis:
lady helena grows up in a family of wealth and privilege, with benign neglect being shown to her by her parents, she is actually raised by governess and nurse, as she grows older, she learns that her parents have their separate lives and are only together for convenience sake, she meets someone when she is, and believes him to be a god among men, they become engaged, even though everyone else knows that he has a fondness for men instead of women, when he is killed during wwI, helena decides to sign up for nursing, she is posted to the front and no one there knows that she is the daughter of an earl, she lives through many atrocities, the death of one of her brothers and the almost death of another, she meets ben, a man of low birth while he's convalescing, and he forms a tendre for her, when the war is over and helena is back in england, her sole focus is taking care of her brother, when the time comes, she puts her brother out of his misery because the doctor isn't there and has a mental breakdown, ben is the only one who sees it, and marries her while she is recovering, helena feels nothing for him because she is still in love with her gay dead fiance, and it gets to the point where he is alive and ben is keeping them apart in her mind.


what i liked: in spite of my rather sardonic summing up, i really liked the writing style and the hero and heroine, a lot happened, but it covered a lot of years, the descriptions of the war, especially were vivid, i liked that ben wasn't content to just be, that he wanted to be more, and work toward that goal,

what i didn't like: that helena was so clueless about her dead fiance and that she had such a hard time accepting ben, when he was the only one who was there for her.
I've read hundreds of books and this one is the BEST, i have already read this book but am looking forward to reading it again and reading it as a woman rather than a teenager which i was when i first stumbled upon it.