Rising Summer

by Mary Jane Staples

Book by Staples, Mary Jane

Genres: Fiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

Mary Jane Staples is a pseudonym used by British author Reginald Thomas Staples (1911-2005). He is also published under the name Robert Tyler Stevens, R.T. Stevens, and James Sinclair.

Reviews

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical Staples back-chat between the MC and everyone else, including officers. Long, slow, comfy story with a rushed ending; all the battle part and "big reveal" felt tacked on. A pleasant read nonetheless.

[Tracey · Rating 1 out of 5]

I persevered with this book till the end but I found it a real effort. This story was about a man called Tim, during the second world war he was based in near a village and mostly had an easy time with his friends and visited his aunt May when he could.
It's unusual for a book of this kind to have a male lead character, that fact didn't necessarily put me off. Unfortunately I found it boring.

[Sharon Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good love Mary Jane staples books have read most of them x

[Patrick · Rating 1 out of 5]

don't like the setting or the way the characters talk

[Rhona Connor · Rating 5 out of 5]

A goodish book.

It was okay. Preferred other books more by this writer. But it has the humour of her other books. It's still worth a read, but I did prefer Adams family books.

[Craig · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first book of MJS i read. I couldn't put it down and read it in a day. Took me a while to get into the way she had written the dialogue but in the end was very easy to read and fun.