5/22/2023 0 Comments Pied piper by nevil shute![]() ![]() In sixth grade, when Victoria Weaver is asked by new girl Caitlin Somers to spend the summer with her on Martha’s Vineyard, her life changes forever. ![]() The years pass by at a fast and steamy clip in Blume’s latest adult novel (Wifey, not reviewed Smart Women, 1984) as two friends find loyalties and affections tested as they grow into young women. What a picture of refugee glutted roads, of German dive bombers, of terror - and yet of the sentimental weak spot that exposes even the most hardened to the appeal of sheer goodness. In their checkered progress across invaded France, he takes under his wing other children, - the niece of a matron at the Inn, a French child whose parents were killed by a dive bomber before his eyes, a Dutch urchin, and finally - as the price of his own freedom, a German child, whose Jewish blood condemns her to perpetual escape. He is caught by rumors of German invasion, while on holiday in the Jura mountains, and is asked to take two English children to safety in England. This is the story of a conservative, tradition-bound old Englishman, faced with the need to be needed, meeting it with quiet courage and no bombast. Shute has the faculty for seizing upon contemporary drama and weaving it into a story with very human elements. ![]() A compact, realistic story, achieving somewhat the effect Nathan strived for in his last novel, They Went on Together. ![]()
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