Rachel Shoe edition by Peter Lihou Romance eBooks
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Nestled in the bay of St Malo, the Channel Islands claim the unique, if dreadful distinction of being the only part of Britain to have been occupied by a foreign power in hundreds of years.
Life on the islands during the five years under the Jackboot was hard and freedoms severely curtailed, but the spirit of a young Guernsey boy called Tom Le Breton was never dampened. This is the story of a dramatic wartime rescue and the romance that grew between Tom and a young Jewish girl imprisoned on the nearby island of Alderney. The story moves from those dangerous but somehow magical days to the heady 1970's when long-since forgotten events return to haunt a small family now settled on the Western coast of Guernsey. Impregnated with the atmosphere of remote islands and their unique history, Rachel's Shoe is an adventure story about the survival of innocence in a world dominated by obsessions for power and wealth.
Rachel Shoe edition by Peter Lihou Romance eBooks
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel. I became familiar with the channel islands when I read a previous book and loved the setting. In Rachel's Shoe I understood what bravery and thankfulness was all about. Rachel was left alone during the German encampments. She was a young girl and longed for her parents who both died at the hand of Nazi madmen. Having made it to the islands to work as a slave in the German Occupation camps, she became very distraught and was rescued by a young lad from another island while he was fishing. The story is fast, there is no lingering with time. I also learned about the deepest sense of greed and it is something I will never forget. The story plot is wonderful and full of love and goodness within Rachel's new life. This story should be put into all high school reading as it tells of World War II in a very exact way without all the horrible killings. You just knew when you finished the book that life was not good and the survivors were and are heros.Product details
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Rachel Shoe edition by Peter Lihou Romance eBooks Reviews
Bought this book in the bargain/free listings, and it turned out to be a page-turner. Well written and perfect tempo, I was never bored.
Loved this story, shared with numerous friends
This is excellent reading... It was hard to lay down to eat or sleep while reading the book. Very interesting.
An excellent read, very difficult to put down. A combination of Romance and thriller set mainly in the Channel Island Bailwick of Guernsey, spanning the German occupation of the channel islands during the second world war and then into the 60's/70's. If you like Romance & Thrillers you will enjoy this book. If you know Guernsey, Alderney and Herm, which make up the Baliwick of Guernsey in the Channel islands, this book will have even more interest.
A must buy book
It was a good story but oh so painfully predictable. As I read it, I kept thinking what a good book it would be in the hands of a better writer. But Lihou's style of writing is simplistic, similar to what you'd find in a book written for teenagers. "Rachel's Shoe" has a lot of good local color about Guernsey. But, in addition to being so predictable, I found the characters and the dialog wooden and unimaginative. The author made little attempt to present nuance and suspense. The book just plodded along. All in all, I think it could have been much better.
Even though it was fiction, the historical background was non-fiction and gave a good perspective as to what happened during the German occupation during WWII.
This novel appealed as I have an appetite for historical fiction, especially about the period of occupation in the Channel Islands.
It did not disappoint me. Included were vivid portrayals of Guernsey life in those dangerous times and almost cinematic descriptions of the alluring scenery in the bailiwick of islands. I was `all at sea' in Tom's small boat evading capture and on the island of Herm I was completely transported to `Shell Beach' along with the principle characters, including the vulnerable young heroin of the story; Rachel.
That said, the most enjoyable aspect of this novel was the story itself. The characters were real for me and I felt I was visiting friends each time I picked up their story. Given the dramatic setting, danger was never far from the surface and the threat of it was used to great effect. I was also pleased that although this story was about the German occupation in wartime and no attempt was made to `sanitise' the enemy or their actions, an attempt was made to show the humanity of some ordinary German soldiers. The story included factual events interwoven with a fictional account including danger, intrigue, and romance. The chapter which described the liberation of the islands was especially poignant.
Rachel's Shoe will appeal to a wide audience as, despite the gravity of the period and action included, it eschews the gratuitous bad language of many contemporary works and loses not one iota of drama in doing so.
This was a thoroughly enjoyable novel.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel. I became familiar with the channel islands when I read a previous book and loved the setting. In Rachel's Shoe I understood what bravery and thankfulness was all about. Rachel was left alone during the German encampments. She was a young girl and longed for her parents who both died at the hand of Nazi madmen. Having made it to the islands to work as a slave in the German Occupation camps, she became very distraught and was rescued by a young lad from another island while he was fishing. The story is fast, there is no lingering with time. I also learned about the deepest sense of greed and it is something I will never forget. The story plot is wonderful and full of love and goodness within Rachel's new life. This story should be put into all high school reading as it tells of World War II in a very exact way without all the horrible killings. You just knew when you finished the book that life was not good and the survivors were and are heros.
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