Less Dreadful with Every Step

Less Dreadful with Every Step

By Clive Woolliscroft

Genre:-Historical Fiction

Pages:-264

Publisher:-The BookGuild

Blurb:-In August 1914, the lives of two young people seem mapped out in front of them. Frank, happily employed as a bank teller, is to marry his fiance in the spring. Emily is also to marry around the same time. Both are natives of Jarrow. Their homes are about a ten-minute walk away-but they have never met.

 Then, everything changes. Carried along with the jingoistic national celebration that follows the declaration of war, Frank enlists in the army, leaving his family and fiance behind. Shortly after this, a devastating loss leaves a massive void in Emily's life. To help fill that void, she volunteers with the voluntary Aid Detachment.

 By the end of the summer 1916, both Frank and Emily are serving in France. Their lives intersect twice, once in France and once in Jarrow. After they meet, the destiny for one is tragedy, and for the other, hope.

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My Review:-This story begins in the North East of England, in a small town called Jarrow. The story is based on two young people, Emily and Frank. Even though they not minutes away from each other they had never met and didn't know each other. Emily was happy making plans for her up coming wedding until she gets news that her fiance has been killed. Emily decides to join the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and is posted to France. At the same time, Frank was having a drink with his friends, when he decides to sign up and he was also posted to France. They do meet twice as their life's cross. After 3 years, Emily and Edward are heading home to Jarrow to her parents. But for Frank it's not as easy. What have the Army got instore for him?

I decided To review this book as I seen it was set in Jarrow, which is about 10 minutes from where I live. The book was a lovely read and showed at times what it must of been like at time during the war.