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Title: WWII Family Story
Review: D. E. Stevenson wrote about 50 novels mostly set in rural south west lowlands Scotland in the middle part of the 20th century, with WWII often looming just before or after the time of the book. In this one we go through the war. The story of an estate and its family, it uses Stevenson's common elements of distracted, neglectful, and irascible parents or other authority figures by whom the children are damaged, and must find their way to wholeness and independence. It's fascinating to see the old pre-war way of life (eight house servants to care for a simple family of 7) give way to the deprivation of warand its aftermath. A very easy read with a beautiful setting and great characters.
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