Love In War

Love In War

By Michael Farthing

Genre:-Literary Fiction/Historical/Romance

Pages:-464

Publisher:-Affable Media

Blurb:-Love in War is a love story of its time. Joanna and Johnnie were born in South London in the shadow of the Great War and were still growing up when the narrative begins in 1936 during Hitler's rise in Nazi Germany. It ends ten years later in 1946, when Johnnie is demobilised.

 Despite the committed intensity of the five -year relationship, they spent only forty-nine days together. Thus, Love in War is more about managing life apart than being together. The story moves between London and Berlin (where Joanna visits in 1938 and her dear schoolfriend,  Ursula lives out the war) and the horrific theatres of war in North Africa and Southern Italy, which have disastrous effects on Johnnie and render him almost unrecognisable on his return to England after the war.

 As the story closes, it is evident that there are no winners, just losers. Perhaps it is love that emerges as the only victor. The future is uncertain for all concerned. They have almost nothing to show for the last five years; just time lost. There remains a rather modest ray of hope-as Johnnie says at the end, 'but we are alive.'

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My Review:-This is a lovely love story of Johnnie and Joanna. Johnnie had watched Joanna, knowing if it wasn't her it'll be someone like her, but it was her. Church brought them together, he would watch her from where she sat with her family as he sat at the other end. Johnnie was five years old than Joanna. They started as friends and ended as a married couple, but it wasn't as easy as that, war broke out and Johnnie was enlisted. The love grow through letters that started when they were young, whenever either was away from each other they would write and this carried on through the war. the author has also added pages from Johnnie's notebook and Joanna's journal, which was I love touch but also told you how they feel with war going on around then. There is so much more to this story you have to read it.