Waiting For The Day

Oct 28, 2024 6:24 PM

Author:Leslie Thomas

Waiting For The Day

Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold and in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day and the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.

RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for Christmas He has been on covert operations in France and knows he has to return there. While in England, he rediscovers a passion that he thought was long over.

In a freezing hut on Salisbury Plain, Sergeant Harris's mind is occupied by questions of just how his young and ebullient wife is coping with their separation. His troops are training for landing on the shores of Normandy.

US officer Harry Miller arrives in Somerset where his American division has set up its headquarters. His affair with an Englishwoman is both bittersweet and potentially dangerous.

Enjoying fishing off the coast of occupied Jersey is German cook sergeant Fred Weber. He believes he has found a sort of peace in the midst of the terrible conflict. But his calm is soon to be shattered as his war takes on a violent twist...

Each man is heading inexorably towards the beaches of France where the great battle will begin...

Reviews

Perfect for reading this summer

—— Jewish Chronicle

This is a story that deserves telling ... it's a topical and timely read in the run-up to the 65th anniversary of D-Day

—— Daily Mail

Gould's indisputable strength is that she tells their story from the perspective of her own sex ... a highly entertaining piece of fiction - enjoy the ride

—— http://spitfiresite.com/reviews/2009/05/carol-gould-spitfire-girls-review.htm

Another frighteningly intense performance

—— Sunday Telegraph

The word genius doesn't seem excessive... The Plot Against America creates its reality magisterially, in long, fluid sentences that carry you beyond scepticism

—— Guardian

Untouchable...he is bequeathing us a body of work that adds up to the most accomplished dissection of American political, social and personal mores

—— Observer

Magnificent. Roth is writing the best books of his life. He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive

—— Guardian

Subtle, persuasive and unsettling. A brilliantly troubling and heartening novel

—— Sunday Times

Many passages in The Plot Against America echo feelings voiced today by vulnerable Americans – immigrants and minorities as alarmed by Trump’s election as the Jews of Newark are frightened by Lindbergh’s

—— New Yorker

Dazzling. The most exciting novelist writing today

—— Independent on Sunday

The novel is full of his usual furious cackling; tragedy tipping into comedy and comedy into tragedy within the space of a few sentences. The prose is beautiful

—— Mail on Sunday

A sensation

—— Sunday Times

A polemical classic

—— Esquire

Brilliant

—— Metro

One of the best writers of dialogue in the history of inverted commas

—— The Times

A reverberating celebration of family, community and humanity

—— Sunday Times

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