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Random Harvest: A Novel

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A veteran’s comfortable life is upended when long-buried memories of his time in the trenches of World War I come rushing backCharles Rainier’s family feared him lost along with so many of Britain’s youth during the First World War. But two years after he was reported MIA, he appears in a Liverpool hospital with no memory of his missing years. Even after marriage and a lif...more

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Published May 1st 2012 by Open Road Media (first published 1941)

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Jan 13, 2009 Philip rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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RANDOM HARVEST is one of the two James Hilton novels I re-read about every five years or so (the other is LOST HORIZON).

It's an engrossing tale of a man who loses his memory due to being shelled in the Great War, eventually finds happiness with a young actress, and then is knocked down on a Liverpool street. He regains consciousness and knows he's a member of a prominent and wealthy family. He begins to reconstruct his life again, knowing all the while that something - and someone - is missing....more

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Nov 21, 2012 Palmyrah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

James Hilton was a mid-twentieth-century English writer of bestselling middlebrow tearjerkers, a bit like Nevil Shute. He is best known today for two books that became blockbuster movies: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Lost Horizon, which gave the world Shangri-La.

Random Harvest is a typical example of his work. The hero, a reluctant but successful between-the-wars business magnate and politician, is haunted by missing memories: he has lost three whole years. The lacuna commences with his being wounde...more
James Hilton was a mid-twentieth-century English writer of bestselling middlebrow tearjerkers, a bit like Nevil Shute. He is best known today for two books that became blockbuster movies: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Lost Horizon, which gave the world Shangri-La.

Random Harvest is a typical example of his work. The hero, a reluctant but successful between-the-wars business magnate and politician, is haunted by missing memories: he has lost three whole years. The lacuna commences with his being wounded in a failed decoy operation during the First World War and ends with him coming to himself on a park bench in Liverpool moments after having been knocked down by a car. The book is about those lost years, and the hero's hunt for them. It is told by his (male) private secretary, a man who knows all his employer's secrets except those the latter cannot recall himself. All is finally revealed, and there is a completely unexpected – to me, at least – twist at the ending, put there to ensure that the reader closes the book more or less satisfied, no matter what has gone before.

Random Harvest is a well-plotted, well-written, polite novel. Those who wish to be intellectually or politically challenged by what they read will find nothing to engage them here; indeed, the anodyne prose and precision-tuned plotting contain little that will excite or challenge anybody. That is not its function, nor its virtue; it is a book written to help middle-aged, middle-class, politically moderate readers pass the time on trains, or fall asleep at night

At this it succeeds wonderfully, if at the expense of a tendency to drag – a tendency that grows so pronounced at times that it prompted me to give the book three stars instead of the four it might otherwise have received.

Writers like Hilton and Shute appealed mainly to the middle-class, more or less conservative English reader of their day. A large part of that appeal lay in their ability to evoke and champion a stable, well-ordered Anglocentric world that was crumbling even then; they offered (false, as it turned out) assurance that England would always endure, that the sons of the shires would ever, as in Housman’s poem, get them the sons their fathers got that God might save the Queen, and that there would be honey still for tea until the end of time. They chronicled the long afterglow of Victorian England, and their appeal was nostalgic even in their heyday; it is doubly so now, if only to the dwindling band for whom such things ever had an appeal in the first place.

I don't think this is a book for Americans; the sort of comic, exaggerated P.G. Wodehouse caricature of Englishness they love so much is not in evidence here. Some elderly Canadians (fans of Robertson Davies in his lighter moments, perhaps) will enjoy it; and wherever nostalgia for the days when Britain ordered and set standards for the world still persist – for example, in former British colonies gone bad, like my own country – a few ageing readers will rediscover a seduction here to which it does no harm, now and again, to yield.(less)

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Sep 14, 2012 Richda Mcnutt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Reading a book by James Hilton should be accompanied by curling up in your most enveloping chair and having a cup of creamy coffee or tea to sip. His writing is a style that we no longer have in literature - much like Nevil Shute. The setting is between the two World Wars in England. The main character suffers from two amnesias: after being injured in World War I, he recovers in several hospitals, but does not know his name or where he is from; then, after having a fall, he comes to on a Liverpo...more

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Nov 17, 2011 Loyola University Chicago Libraries rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Great premise, disappointing follow-through. I'm very surprised that I didn't like this; other reviews praise it for being engrossing, but I found most of it to be quite dull. Charles Rainier is an English politician and businessman who can't remember a few years of his life due to a WWI head injury. While set at the eve of WWII, most of the book is comprised of flashbacks to Rainier's life, eventually including scenes from his missing years. And, of course, there are women involved -- a cold pr...more

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Oct 29, 2010 Korri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: the-great-war, fiction, great-britain, london

I am struck afresh by the aptness and loving detail of Hilton's description of autumnal London:

'For London...was of all cities in the world the most autumnal--its mellow brickwork harmonzing with fallen leaves and October sunsets, just as the etched grays of November composed themselves with the light and shade of Portland stone. There was a charm, a deathless charm, about a city whose inhabitants went about muttering, "The nights are drawing in," as if it were a spell to invoke the vast, spawli...more

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Nov 25, 2011 Cliff rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novels

James Hilton (English, 1900-1954) was a prolific writer of bestselling novels and an equally successful writer of screenplays. Several of his novels including this one, Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr Chips were made into popular films and Mrs Miniver, for which Hilton wrote the screenplay, won the Academy Award in 1942.

The story is narrated by Harrison, a student at Oxford who in 1937 has a chance meeting on a train with the central character, Rainier, an industrialist and politician, and later bec...more

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Nov 03, 2009 Carolynne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romance

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Dec 14, 2009 Debbie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: oldbooks-historicalfiction

Fantastic! I read this for my RS book group, and we all came so excited to talk about it. The problem is that you can't really talk about it unless you've read it, so I can't write much here without giving anything away. And if you plan to read the book, I recommend that you DON'T read the Goodreads summary. The less you know, the better, because following the story as it progresses is part of what make this book so enjoyable.

Here's what I can tell you: this takes place in England between the Wo...more

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Apr 07, 2008 Saralyn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I think this book is much better than "Good-bye Mr. Chips." Much more interesting and readable, to me. I enjoyed the story and the characters very much. Who wouldn't be intrigued by Charles Ranier? A fun book. (The movie is great, too. Greer Garson. I don't know if you should read the book first or see the movie first. They're a little different, but the movie might help you understand the book? I loved them both.)

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Nov 17, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jan 26, 2008 Shelley Mitchell rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone

Recommended to Shelley by: saw movie first, book is better

this is one i keep reading over and over again. an amnesia story -- who is NOT fascinated with amnesia? if i got amnesia, and was lost somewhere and unidentifiable, what kind of life would i make for myself? how close would it be to the one i lost? what influences a person's choices? who is the real ME? a wonderful story, set in england, between the two world wars, and also a love story.

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Jun 08, 2011 V. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A mystery, a romance, a history of England between the wars. An utterly spellbinding story of lost identity and lost love.

I should confess I've always had a soft spot for the B&W movie, even though it is ridiculously melodramatic, or maybe because of that, but defintely because it starred the gloriously beautiful Greer Garson who could make a young boy roll up a sock and stuff it in his own mouth to prevent himself from crying with joy every time she appears on screen.

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May 16, 2012 Javier Aviña rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Estaba yo iniciando la escuela secundaria y una vez fui al cine a ver "Adiós Mister Chips"; supe luego que era la versión cinematográfica de una obra de James Hilton. Mi maestro de literatura me recomendó leer "En la noche del pasado", título en español de "Random Harvest". Siempre le agradecí la recomendación. Me adentraba yo en la literatura "de adultos" y aquella novela tuvo mucho significado para mí por eso mismo, por ser de las primeras que leí una vez dejado atrás a Verne, Salgari, etc. La...more

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Jul 13, 2009 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Like several of the other reviewers I had already seen the movie when I picked up the book. That took away the surprise reveal at the end of the book, of course, but it was interesting to consider the different structures; the book worked backwards chronologically beginning with a successful, married Charles Rainier, while the movie started in the asylum and moved forward from that point.

While I found the film very moving, I didn't get the same emotional impact from the book - again, probably be...more

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Sep 13, 2012 Mary Simonsen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I first read this book 30 years ago and again last year. It is a story of love and loyalty after the First World War. The conclusion is one of the best I've ever read.

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Jun 12, 2011 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: miscellaneous

Our neighbour gave us a pile of books from around middle-1950's, and I randomly picked one for my sunny day in the hanging mat. It happened to be an old Finnish edition ("Sattuma korjaa satoa") of Random Harvest. I knew nothing about the story or the author beforehand, so I was pleasantly surprised to see what a beautiful and witty way of writing Hilton has, and how I enjoyed reading about his characters. The mixture of romance and war usually feels a bit over-used, but here everything seemed su...more

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Apr 04, 2011 Shauna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It has probably been years since I have seen the classic movie of this book with Greer Garson and Ronald Colman, but it very much influenced the way I read this book. For one it took away the mystery and the shock of the ending, but it also enriched the imagery and the sympathy I had for the characters. The movie gives Greer Garson's character an expanded role, while the book gives the narration to Charles Rainier's friend/secretary. I enjoyed the layout of the book, the intrigue of the amnesia,...more

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Jan 10, 2010 Aaron Gapasin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Beneath the love story and the gripping tale of a man trying to remember a lost part of his life, Random Harvest is an immense commentary and critique of England between the two World Wars. It is no coincidence that this story starts with the characters half-heartedly observing Armistice Day. This of course leads to the discussion of Rainier’s memories of WWI and how disappointing life was after the war, as all participants felt there should have been some sort of “well-deserved...more (Spoiler Alert):
Beneath the love story and the gripping tale of a man trying to remember a lost part of his life, Random Harvest is an immense commentary and critique of England between the two World Wars. It is no coincidence that this story starts with the characters half-heartedly observing Armistice Day. This of course leads to the discussion of Rainier’s memories of WWI and how disappointing life was after the war, as all participants felt there should have been some sort of “well-deserved happy ever after” or the chance to reconstruct the world how they saw fit. It is also no coincidence that news broadcasts of the impending start of WWII is intermittently placed in the story with the intensity of the news increasing along with the climax of the story.
Charles Rainier personifies England. Rainier cannot remember the horrible consequences of the Great War; this memory has been lost along with the happiest memories of his life, which occurred very shortly after his return to England. He is left only with the sense that he has lost something important. He gives up his academic and contemplative pursuits early on and takes up the family business. He slowly grows more and more entwined with the emptiness of making a profit. He is, in a sense, “sleepwalking” and so is England. They are all caught up in the business of the stock market and money and really just the STATUS QUO, hence taking up the family business. Again it is not a coincidence that Rainier doesn’t remember his father very fondly, nor does he even see him before he dies, though he had plenty of opportunity to do so. Fortunes and emptiness are coldly passed down from one generation to the next without any thought of meaning or direction. As the humdrum of day-to-day business presses on, initially no one bothers to take news of Germany’s activities very seriously, and even refer to events on the continent as “Hitler’s little war.” They continue throwing parties and partaking in shallow social events with each person looking to secure his or her own interests rather than seeking true friendship. By the end, as Charles Rainier gains his memory back in lightening speed, the start of WWII comes crashing down on England. The lessons learned from WWI come back to Rainier along with the consequences, i.e.… the horror of being a P.O.W. Accompanying those memories are also memories of his true love, Paula. They were poor and happy. They had a son together. They lived with Reverend Blampied, who championed populist rights and movements, and who was always willing to take on big businesses and corporations. As it turned out, shortly after Charles awakened on the park bench lacking memory of this recent life, Blampied died, and Paula gave birth, but the boy died; which is very significant, given that the generation of WWI has squandered the last twenty years and is now sending their offspring off to die as WWII starts. Mrs. Rainier’s comments toward the end are particularly enlightening about this concept. She says:
“We’re terribly unready, we missed our ways years ago and found a wide, comfortable road, fine for sleepwalkers, but it had the major drawback of wandering just anywhere at random. Charles always thought that, but as a rich man it wasn’t easy for him to say so. Being rich tied his hands and stopped his mouth and took up his time—so that the wasted years wasted him.”
Lastly, as it turns out, Paula is the very Mrs. Rainier who always seems to be hiding something. His true love and happiness has been there with him all along if he could just remember. While it is clear that it is too late to change the past there is hope to change the future. Paula rushes toward Charles just as Harrison comments to her “He is not asleep, he is just resting.” Charles and Paula embrace at the summit of the small and simple English village over looking five counties where he had once proposed to her, now he remembers who she really is to him. And just as the book started with talk of WWI and what should have been, Random Harvest ends with the start of WWII and talk of what is to come. It was written before the United States even entered the war, there was really no knowing what the ending of “another Great War” would mean. Surely the outlook appeared grim to England. This generation was left with much regret that they had let it happen again. However, they were also left with hope that upon “the next Armistice Day, whenever it comes… it will be a different England…" And finally Mrs. Rainier or Paula and Charles Rainier embrace with Paula calling out “oh Smithy it may not be too late.” Written at a time full of despair and regret, Hilton ends the story with profound hope and passion. He is clearly telling us that we can wake up from our apathy, and learn from our history in order to change our futures. James Hilton leaves us with a timeless question, whether or not we too have lost our memories. He challenges us to regain meaning, passion, and love instead of waiting for yet another Great War to do the job for us.
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Oct 31, 2012 Courtney H. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is another book that I did a disservice to by waiting so long to review it, but I will try. I thought this was a beautiful book, and TARDIS like: its bigger on the inside. It covers more than its story seems to, at first glance; it hides a thoughtfulness and a sadness that runs like a strand through many of Hilton's war-touched books.

Random Harvest appears at first glance to be a mystery and a love story. Through the narration of Charles’ Rainier’s secretary and confidant, it tells Rainier...more This is another book that I did a disservice to by waiting so long to review it, but I will try. I thought this was a beautiful book, and TARDIS like: its bigger on the inside. It covers more than its story seems to, at first glance; it hides a thoughtfulness and a sadness that runs like a strand through many of Hilton's war-touched books.

Random Harvest appears at first glance to be a mystery and a love story. Through the narration of Charles’ Rainier’s secretary and confidant, it tells Rainier’s story. The novel begins in the late 1930s, as the coming spectre of World War II loomed over the country, but soon cycles backwards, to 1919, when Rainier woke up with no memory of the previous two years of his life. He returned to his upper class family, returned the family business to success, and gave up his own scholarly dreams in favor of a life of business and politics, in which he gained prominence. It recounts his love story with a young woman and the dissolution of their engagement. Mrs. Rainier remains somewhat of an enigma; excellent at running his life, someone he appreciates but perhaps does not love. Through all, there is a thread of loss, surrounding those lost years that he could never quite regain. It is likely not much of a spoiler that he does finally remember, of course, and we learn what happened to him during those two years, which he spent as John Smith, and in the end how those new memories affect his life and identity as Charles Rainier.

I watched the movie before I realized it was a book by Hilton, and so was spoiled for an important part of the story. In some ways, it spoilt it for me, because I did not have the benefit of a literary device that worked quite well in the book. On the other hand, knowing this part of the story enriched my reading in some ways; it gave me a different perspective on the story and its development. Still, I would recommend that one read this book without being spoiled.

As a result, I’m somewhat limited in how much I can in my review. Much of the analysis of characters and writing is necessarily tied up with the storytelling, and too much discussion might give it away.

What I did want to mention is that Hilton does not get the credit he deserves, I think. He was popular in his day, but has not retained that popularity in subsequent years. Too sentimental, perhaps; too easy. Indeed, when I’ve been away from Hilton too long, I start to doubt my own reading of him and begin to underestimate him again. Random Harvest is a beautiful story, as is the film adaptation of it. But the novel also is much more than that. It is a story of loss; of people lost, of self lost; of culture lost. The inexorable march of war hangs over the novel, pulling England in, pulling the reader in, as someone who knows what must come. Hilton is sometimes accused of dealing too sentimentally with pre-war England, but I do not know if I agree. If anything, he was harsh about the country’s failings, though the harshness was hidden in a guise of his pleasant writing style. Rainier embodied the British ideal, perhaps, but Hilton did not reflect that ideal in the British society he conveyed.

Hilton is, at heart, a storyteller. His focus is on his characters and on the story he lays out for them. His writing is deft, accessible, and simple. He writes a good romance; he writes a good hero. And then, inserted in his narrative, will be these arresting moments of writing: an offhanded comment by the narrator or a character about something bigger. You ache with sadness and loss when you read these asides, with the knowledge that we have about what would come and the almost prescient knowledge that Hilton seemed to have about just how devastating the war would be (Hilton published this book in 1941; Germany had already advanced through much of Europe, but much more was yet to come in the war). The war played, in this book, a similar role that it played in Remains of the Day. Hilton has a way of writing that lets you slip over the fact that some of these characters, Rainier in particular, is profoundly damaged; and suddenly you must remember. Hilton does not beat you over the head with anything—not his morals, not his politics, not his themes. He tells his story, but there it is, between the lines and in these. Like Rainier, the book is straightforward, and dutiful, well-mannered, unpretentious. And there lurks, beneath a very likeable and highly readable veneer, something else, something meaningful.

Hilton is the kind of writer who sticks with you. You read and when you finish, you feel a bit quieter inside; and you find yourself returning to that feeling in the days subsequent; and you also find yourself returning to those moments where the novel got just a bit bigger than its story.(less)

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Jan 21, 2010 Cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 10-10-10, 20th-century, romance, fiction, wwi

Charles Rainier has a rising political career, a beautiful and charming wife, a fine country home, and a successful business, but he is missing something - about 2 years of his life. He was wounded during World War I and received a head injury. From the time of his injury in a trench in Germany to over 2 years later when he 'came to himself' on a park bench in England, he can't remember a thing. This is the story of his life, his romances, and his ultimately successful attempt to figure out who...more

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Jan 01, 2009 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, fiction

Charles Rainier served in WWI but cannot remember 2 years of his life at the end of the war. His last memory is of being in a shell hole and men dying around him...but then nothing until 2 years later when he wakes up on a bench in Cambridge. He returns to his wealthy family who thought he was a casualty of war. He takes over the company that is doing poorly but is always searching for something that is missing. A surprise ending.

The movie changed it all around. Not very good.

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Mar 01, 2009 Dottie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: old-best-sellers, worth-rereading

James Hilton wrote this book--author of Lost Horizon, the book that gave us Shangri la.

This book is fascinating. It is about a high class Englishman who is a Lord. During World War I. He is wounded and has amnesia. He cannot remember who he is or where he is from. He meets a girl Paula who calls him Smithy, for want of a real name. They live a plain, simple, and beautiful life. Then he is hit by a car and remembers who he was, but remembers nothing past his injury during the war. Is he really S...more

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Aug 13, 2011 Barbara Lovejoy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What a WONDERFUL book! I had recently seen the movie for the first time so I was excited to read the book because the author was James Hilton, the author of another loved book, Lost Horizon. Then found out Hilton was the author of Good-bye, Mr. Chips. Haven't read the book but have seen the movie a number of times. It may be time to read the book as well as other books written by James Hilton. He is definitely now one of my top favorite authors.

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Jan 26, 2013 Joyceliv rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Well this book started out as 2 stars, moved to 3 stars somewhere in the middle, and ended with 4 stars for me. However, it still averages out to be about 3 stars. The beginning was very slow and I had a very hard time getting into it. After it went on it got better and better. I would have liked more character development for all the characters. All the characters seemed so flat especially Helen. Even Kitty was flat who was the least flat character of all, if that makes any sense. And Charles w...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Roger rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I first came to this novel by way of the 1942 movie version, starring Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson. (Well worth seeing.) The book greatly expands on the film, filling in much more of the backstory of wealthy Charles Ranier, who loses his memory following a World War I injury. The story eventually evolves into a classic romance, which is the focus of the movie. Like most of Hilton's work, the novel is sentimental and beautifully written.

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Aug 25, 2012 Deborah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I fell in love with this story when I saw the 1942 film with Ronald Colman and Greer Garson. The story as presented in the film was necessarily altered because of the visual presentation, but I found it wonderfully charming and one of the most romantic movies I've ever seen. The book is quite good and I enjoyed reading it once again not too long ago. I recommend both the book and the film, but if you have to choose, watch the film!

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Feb 29, 2012 Jane rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I picked this up because Truman G. Madsen mentioned it in an article my husband was reading. The point was our memory was like Smithy in "Random Harvest", then he told the plot, and I decided I wanted to experience this book. It is a "good" book. Unfortunately, I knew the ending after the earlier mentioned article, but it still was a 3-4 star story. Someday, I will see the old movie that is a classic.

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Apr 22, 2008 Nate rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Random Harvest, is one of those rare books in which the movie version(1942 movie with Ronald Colman, Greer Garson) is way way better than the book.

I have read James Hilton's Lost Horizon and really enjoyed it as well as the movie, so I thought, "Heck, I love the Random Harvest movie, so I bet the book is great as well." My first challenge was finding a copy of this book. It wasn't at the library or in an old used book store. However ebay saved the day. Well, when I received the book I excitedly...more

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Sep 11, 2011 Sallie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've had this hardcover edition sitting on my TBR pile for a long time. It looks to be a first edition - published in 1941, but it is not in great condition, at least not the back cover which has had water damage at sometime in it's past.

I've watched the movie version with Ronald Colman for years, so it's time I read the 'real' story. I must say though that when Charles Rainer is described or talks in the book, I see Ronald Colman all the way.

9/11/11 - Just finished this book and while it is sen...more

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Oct 18, 2011 Lesley rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, fiction

It's an engrossing tale of a man who loses his memory due to being shelled in the Great War, eventually finds happiness with a young actress,and then is knocked down on a Liverpool street. He regains consciousness and knows he's a member of a prominent and wealthy family. He begins to reconstruct his life again, knowing all the while that something - and someone - is missing. Eventually he takes over the reigns of the family business and restores it to success, and becomes a successful politicia...more

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