Title: A simple, but heart-wrenching book
Product review: As a child I read this book. I read it again. I remembered the poignant moments of this novel. Lovejoy's heartbreak over the destruction of her garden, her intense loneliness and desperation when she learns her mother has left her, Olivia's pain when she realizes she cannot live to belong to someone. Godden writes of the gritty streets of London in the post-war years. Her story of Lovejoy, Tip and Sparkey fighting against the brutal realities of survival to create something beautiful ins both inspiring and charming.Overall stands the statue of the Virgin disturbing and consoling the efforts of the girl who tries to keep things clean and pretty.The characters of this story, the Chesneys, Mrs Combie and her husband Vincent, Father Lambert and Charles and Liz give flesh and spirit to the bleakness of a world trying to rise from ashes, with hope, tarnished and torn, but insistent.
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