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Bezig met laden... Somewhere in France (2013)door Jennifer Robson
Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Lady Elizabeth Ashford (Lilly) was to be forced to marry someone she did not love. Since her parents had also not allowed her to go to college, prevented her from pursuing a relationship with Robert (Robbie) Fraser, a surgeon, and refused to let their former chauffeur who taught Lilly to drive continue working for them, she left and struck out on her own. Fortunately, she could stay with her former governess, Charlotte Brown, who was studying to be a nurse. Due to her driving experience, she was able to join the WAACs and maneuver her way to the 51st hospital in France where Robbie Fraser was stationed. Unfortunately, fraternizing with the medical staff was strictly forbidden, so they continued to write letters. When her brother Edward was pronounced missing, she managed to travel to Paris where Robbie was meeting her brother to let him know what happened. ( ) Lady Elizabeth is in her early 20s(?) and has not had a real education, although she would have loved that. She is expected to marry, be a wife, and mother. When her brother’s friend, Robbie from university, visits, “Lilly” is swept away. But he is far below her “station”, and her mother sends him packing (with a lie Lilly doesn’t know about). Lilly thought they were getting along very nicely and was very disappointed Robbie left without a word. WWI arrives, and Edward (Lilly’s brother) heads to war, and Lilly learns that Robbie is a doctor and has gone to France to perform surgeries on wounded soldiers at the front. Lilly wants so badly to help, but is forbidden by her mother. She finds a way to secretly learn to drive, and when things blow up with her parents, she leaves to live with her former tutor in London. From there, she manages to get a job driving an ambulance in France to help shuttle soldiers from when they were wounded to the makeshift hospitals. This was also a romance, which is not usually my thing, but I got swept away in this one. I really liked it. I really liked both Lilly and Robbie. And it was interesting to learn about the women ambulance drivers in the war. The author’s father was a historian with an interest in the two world wars. Somewhere in France was Jennifer Robson's first novel. Set in World War I, it demonstrates a depth of knowledge of that conflict thanks to the author's father, Professor Stuart Robson, an expert on the topic. Lilly (aka Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford) always wanted a life beyond the expectations of her titled parents. Robert "Robbie" Fraser, who met Lilly's older brother Edward at university and became his best friend, has encouraged her. When he, a surgeon, is sent to France at the outbreak of war, they correspond, and he further encourages her. Lilly secretly learns to drive on the family's country estate, and ultimately leaves home and moves in with her former governness, Charlotte. She manages to become an ambulance driver with the British Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), and to get sent to the same field hospital as Robbie. Robson doesn't shy away from a vivid and unflinching picture of what the war was like for ambulance drivers, surgeons, nurses, and the wounded. The romance between Lilly and Robbie is sweet, but somewhat predictable. Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford longs have a life of substance and meaning, so when WW1 breaks out she breaks free of convention and becomes and ambulance driver. When she is transferred to the same field hospital where Robbie, her brother’s best friend, works, she hopes to strengthen the growing bond between them. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford, has struggled against both her mother's expectations and the restrictions early 20th-century British society imposes upon women of "gentle breeding". Lilly longs to make a difference, to have a life of substance and meaning. Only one person other than her beloved brother Edward ever listened to what she really wanted-Robert Fraser, Edward's best friend. But that was many years ago when he was visiting and Lilly was young, and she is certain Robbie has long forgotten her. Robbie Fraser knows he shouldn't have come to the lavish ball given by Edward's parents, the Earl and Countess of Cumberland. This world is far removed from the hospital in Whitechapel where he works as a surgeon. In his work, he is fêted and admired by his colleagues and friends, yet his accomplishments count for nothing to the privileged few attending the Neville-Ashford gala. As he plots his quiet escape, he is stopped by a vision of loveliness-Lilly. He finds her utterly captivating. She believes he is the man of her dreams. In a few short weeks, the world is engulfed by war. As the lights go out across Europe, Robbie becomes a trauma surgeon in a field hospital on the Western Front, while Lilly breaks free of convention, as well as from her disapproving parents, leaving home and eventually becoming an ambulance driver with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. When she is transferred to the same field hospital where Robbie works, she hopes to strengthen the growing bond between them. Yet how can love survive the class restrictions that separate them and the horrors and suffering of the Great War?" -- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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