![]() ![]() Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth. To do something for someone or something you loved - England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history - wasn't a sacrifice at all. This new book by Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Willis ( Lincolns Dreams ) is an intelligent and satisfying. Like I must have looked there in the rubble with Sir Godfrey, my hand pressed against his heart. Like Mike must have looked in Kent, composing engagement announcements and letters to the editor. ![]() Like Eileen had looked, telling Polly she'd decided to stay. As if he was where he wanted to be, doing what he wanted to do. Like Colin helping Mr Dunworthy across the wreckage. Like Ernest Shackleton, setting out in that tiny boat across icy seas. He looked like Captain Faulknor must have looked, lashing the ships together. He looked instead like Marjorie had looked telling Polly she'd joined the Nursing Service, like Mr Humphreys had looked filling buckets with water and sand to save Saint Paul's, like Miss Laburnum had looked that day she came to Townsend Brothers with the coats. ![]() Or even like someone determined to "do his bit". He didn't look - in spite of the crown of thorns - like someone making a sacrifice. It’s also an excellent tool for sharing her own understanding of history, through American glasses. That’s very clever writing and very powerful. “She had been wrong in thinking Christ had been called up against his will to fight in a war. Willis presents an emotional relationship with the past, and convinces readers that this emotional relationship is a true depiction of history. ![]()
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