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A little village on the Loire is the setting of the story. A war widow tends to her farm and her three children, while writing recipes and the details of a troubled life.
I loved the atmospheric setting, the complex relations between the villagers and the invading Germans. The blurring of the lines of propriety and morality during times of war, and the mixed loyalties. On another level, though, the secret and the buildup to it became too predictable towards the end. So the novel did not have the ...more
I loved the atmospheric setting, the complex relations between the villagers and the invading Germans. The blurring of the lines of propriety and morality during times of war, and the mixed loyalties. On another level, though, the secret and the buildup to it became too predictable towards the end. So the novel did not have the ...more
I liked this, but I'm starting to think that all her books have the same ...concept... if not the same plot: bitter woman with a past wanders around France, cooks food for people, confronts past, falls in love, lives happily ever after. In France.
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