The Way We Were (by Marcia Willett)

I have very much enjoyed Marcia Willett’s novels over the past twenty or so years since I first discovered her writing. I’ve gradually acquired her books over the years, and am currently re-reading those which I haven’t read for a while. It’s almost ten years since I read ‘The Way we Were’, and I had entirely forgotten what it was about, so it was definitely time to re-read.

It’s a dual time-line story, as many of the author’s novels are. It opens in February 1976, A young woman known as Tig...