It's a complex, melodramatic story, full of twists and turns, but I had too many issues with it to really enjoy it. It's clear to Leonora that there's some sort of mystery surrounding the circumstances of her birth, but it's only years later that an old soldier friend of her father's approaches her and tells her the whole story about what happened at Meongate, the family pile, around the time when Leonora was born.
And so the story begins, starting with the story of Leonora's life, growing up with her villainous step-grandmother, who makes the girl's doubtful parentage clear and her life hell. It indicates he couldn't actually have been her father. The mother, Leonora, points out the date on her own father's gravestone. In Pale Battalions starts with two women, mother and daughter, visiting a 1st World War grave in northern France.
Penelope at once supposes a simple wartime illegitimacy as the clue to her mother's unhappy childhood and the family's sundered connections with her aristocratic heritage, about which she has always known so little.īut nothing could have prepared her, or the reader, for the extraordinary story that is about to unfold. But Leonora wasn't born until 14th March 1917. The date of his death is recorded and 30th April, 1916. Amongst those commemorated is Leonora's father. Their journey starts with an unscheduled stop at the imposing Thiepval Memorial to the dead of the Battle of the Somme near Amiens. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin.
Six months after her husband's sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for a holiday in Paris with her daughter Penelope. Urn:oclc:842876059 Scandate 20101005045513 Scanner : Various points in 20th century England OL1984983W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.55 Pages 408 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0385339208 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:47:36 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA127710 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Reprinted.
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