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“Your only chance is to grab hold of happiness when you have it, and enjoy it for as long as it lasts.”

Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson

December 29, 2025 by Nart Leave a Comment

Plot: An ambitious young journalist with a secret makes her way across the Atlantic to what she hopes is her big break – reporting on the domestic (i.e. women’s) angle of the growing war in Europe in the summer of 1940.  Her journey takes us on an intimate journey of the war, from the basic ways in which meals were affected by rations to the massive toll of civilian losses during the Blitz to the war zones in France and back. Through it all, Ruby […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: Jennifer Robson

Nart's CBR17 Review No:47 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: Jennifer Robson ·
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So much left unsaid

Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War by Jennifer Robson

May 26, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Historical fiction is one of my “go-to’s” when I need something to read, and fiction about WWI is usually grim but compelling. Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy is brilliant, as is the classic All Quiet on the Western Front. WWI lit and films bring home the terrifying reality of trench warfare and its horrifying psychological impact on soldiers who endured it. Somewhere in France looked interesting to me because it centers on the experiences of a young woman, an ambulance driver at the front. Author Jennifer […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr14, ElCicco, Fiction, historical fiction, Jennifer Robson, Somewhere in France, WWI

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr14, ElCicco, Fiction, historical fiction, Jennifer Robson, Somewhere in France, WWI ·
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There’s an excellent book floating around in here somewhere, but…

November 21, 2014 by Sara Habein Leave a Comment

(This post originally appeared in Persephone Magazine.) Set during World War I and promising an aristocratic feminist awakening, I wanted to like Somewhere in France a lot more than I did. Jennifer Robson’s story of Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford and Doctor Robert Fraser goes on too long for what is at stake, but it still has its redeeming qualities. Lady Elizabeth — Lilly, to most everyone who knows her — has left her comfortable lifestyle in order to join the war effort. Her parents more or less […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, Jennifer Robson, novel, Somewhere in France, WWI

Sara Habein's CBR6 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, Jennifer Robson, novel, Somewhere in France, WWI ·
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