Interesting and sad

 

Thank you NetGalley for letting me review this book.

I am new to this author and really loved this story set after world war 1 and concerns three womwen, Florence is living with her dead sisters husband and his daughter called Phoebe who is a challenge. Kit is making masks for the soldiers who have suffered damage or had their faces destroyed in battle, 

In the village is a large carved face in the headland- this was tended by a family pre war but they were all victims of the great war and is now disapearing.The people of the village are superstitious, wanting the face must be preserved in order to keep the villagers safe the war put paid to that and the family tending to it gone with the raveges of war.

The book is about the realtionship between Florence and Kit

Interesting but also very sad (this left a generation without men - I remember some very emitted primary school teachers who never got over this and were without love) 

I enjoyed this well written book, Due For publication later this month on 25 September 2025.