Last christmas in paris a novel of world war i
Finding books you love doesn’t happen often. Finding romantic novels you love doesn’t happen often either. Finding romantic novels that you love by accident happens even more rarely. With this book, all these things happened with me.
Christmas season was approaching and I was in the mood of curling up in my warm blanket with a mushy romance. Isn’t that the perfect dream of spending Christmas? Well, I had just come out of reading a stereotypical historical romance about which I had heard many praises from Booktubers, and so my expectations from a romance that turned up in my Google search for ‘Christmas romances’ weren’t very high. Never the less, a story set in the World War era (you know I have a soft spot for it) which claimed to be a romance and had Christmas and Paris in the title, convinced me that this book could satisfy my cravings even if I don’t end up falling in love with it.
I was so wrong.
At the beginning, the book shocks you. it is written purely in letters and telegrams exchanged by the characters. So readers of fiction who are used to having narrations and dialogues would take a bit to adjust to the style of writing. However, the letters are so detailed and de
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
By Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb
An unforgettably romantic novel that spans four Christmases (1914-1918), Last Christmas in Paris explores the ruins of war, the strength of love, and the enduring hope of the Christmas season. New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently… Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict—but how?—and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father’s newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears—and grow e
Last Christmas in Paris
:
A Novel of World War I
An unforgettably romantic novel that spans four Christmases (1914-1918), Last Christmas in Paris explores the ruins of war, the strength of love, and the enduring hope of the Christmas season.
New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.
August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris.
But as history tells us, it all happened so differently…
Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict—but how?—and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father’s newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears—and grow ever fonder from afar. Can
Stray Thoughts
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of
World War I
by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb opens with the beginning of WWI. Two friends from childhood, Will Elliott and Thomas Harding, head out for France to fight, enthusiastically expecting the war to be over by Christmas. Then they plan to meet Will’s sister, Evie, and her friend, Alice, in Paris for Christmas to celebrate.
But of course the war drags on much longer than the few months til Christmas.
Evie writes Will and Thomas with all the support and hope she can send. Will is not much of a writer, so Evie gets most of her news about him from Tom.
Over time, enthusiasm and naiveté wanes and the realities of war weigh them all down. Tom gets more discouraged by what he has seen and has to do.
Tom also faces pressure from his father’s illness and business troubles. His father owns and operates the
London Daily Times
and always planned for Tom to follow in his footsteps. Tom’s interests fall more into a literary and scholarly vein, and he has no interest in the newspaper, which causes tension with his father. But when his father falls ill, Tom is consulted. He can’t do much from