My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

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Toch ziet niet iedereen de toekomst somber in, Rose Locke – Peters nichtje en Rileys voormalige verpleegster – beseft dat er voor haar als vrouw onafhankelijkheid in het verschiet ligt. Trovo discutibile la scelta delle parole in copertina, la definizione di questo libro come un libro che parla di tre donne. My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You starts out slow-paced but picks up so much speed in the second half that I wasn’t able to put it down. Eventually, they are separated by her parents who refuse to send her to Sir Arthur’s for lessons if Riley is still working there, which ultimately pushes Riley to see his fortunes through a different lens and join the military. It left you—well , it never left you: it rendered you brutalized, incapable, unthinking, unfeeling, scar tissue all over.

There's also a sweet and realistic love story and a fascinating subplot about reconstructive facial surgery. Both end up under the tutelage of Sir Arthur, a famous artist, who sees potential in Riley and Nadine. Wasn't too sure if the pill was a little bit over-sweetened towards the end of the book - but, what the hell? In addition, there's Riley's commanding officer, Peter Locke, and his wife, Julia, and Peter's cousin, Rose. It is also a love story: a story of what love can make people do, and not just "romantic love" but also, for example, the love that a mother may have for a son, or a doctor for his patient, or the love that a soldier may have for a former, now dead, soldier.

The book delivered everything I had hoped, intelligent writing, an emotional story, with a historical slant that give me an insight into the pains endured by those who bravely fought in the first world war. The characters in My Dear I Wanted to Tell You enter the story strangely underdeveloped - their motives and reasons for falling in love are never quite explained - and never quite recover. This was an insight for me, into the hidden world of my own grandparents, and the author managed to make it accessible in a modern way. Pour moi, le roman de Louisa Young n'est pas tout à fait du même niveau littéraire que ceux que je viens de mentionner.

Louisa Young is a history graduate, and worked as a journalist for British national newspapers and magazines for some years. Also the vast conspiracy of silence that was preserved by those fighting to protect the people they were fighting for. One of the most powerful books I've read about WWI: remember the battlefield scenes in "Saving Private Ryan"? Julia has burned her face with acids, attempting to hide signs of aging, but seems to feels more relief than anything when her son whom she’s fetched to see his father reacts to her bandages by attempting to comfort her, and she understands that “Peter needs me sane more than he needs me beautiful…” (324). My dear I wanted to tell you is a 2011 novel by Lousia Young about young up-and-coming officer Riley Purefoy, the girl he loves, his CO, the girl he loves, and his cousin, whom nobody loves.My other grandfather joined the war at 17 and must have had a similar experience to Riley in the book. Worried that her husband is slipping away, Julia is left alone with her fears when Rose joins the nursing corps to work with a pioneering plastic surgeon treating wounded and disfigured soldiers.