Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of the low points of the war, and written only a year later at a time when people had no idea of the outcome of the war, this novel about a group of people living in the country is an exact, unaffected portrayal of things as they were at the time.
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Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of the low points of the war, and written only a year later at a time when people had no idea of the outcome of the war, this novel about a group of people living in the country is an exact, unaffected portrayal of things as they were at the time.
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The great interest of Jocelyn Playfair's book for modern readers is its complete authenticity. Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of the low points of the war, and written only a year later when we still had no idea which way the war was going. "A House in the Country" has a verisimilitude denied to modern writers. Sebastian Faulks in "Charlotte Gray" or Ian McEwan in "Atonement" do their research and evoke a particular period, but ultimately are dependent on their own and historians' interpretation of events; whereas a novel like this one is an exact, unaffected portrayal of things as they were at the time.
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"The Tablet praised A House in the Country's 'comic energy, compelling atmosphere and richly apt vocabulary.' Jenny Hartley review in The Times Literary Supplement - 'The novel's strength is its evocation of the preoccupations of wartime England and its mood of battered but sincere optimism.'"
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