Category: WW1
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The WW1 Novel
I realise I’ve talked about ‘the WW1 novel’ on here but never gone into detail about it. Now that Dancing with Edith (my ‘book’) is at the final stages, I’ve been working on the WW1 novel (my ‘novel’) in more depth. Particularly over the last few months as I decided to work on it as…
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‘Doomed Youth’: Another Look at The Passing Bells
Just going to enthusiastically ramble about this series again, since I’ve been revisiting it a lot recently (I have it playing in the background while I work on my WW1 novel). Here is my previous post on it. This post will contain spoilers. (All images are taken from the online gallaries for The Passing Bells‘…
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WW1 Wednesday: Book Review: The Lie by Helen Dunmore
Following the anchorless, alienated Daniel Branwell as he tries to return to pre-war life in 1920 Cornwall. Appearing to suffer from PTSD, or ‘shell-shock’, he lives isolated in a cliff-top cottage unofficially bequeathed to him by the dying owner. His childhood friend and blood-brother, Frederick died in France, yet his literal ghost is a source…
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WW1 Wednesday: A Review of The Passing Bells.
Welcome to WW1 Wednesday, otherwise known as weekly themed posts. Been struggling to come up with new content these past weeks, (but cutting myself some slack because I am writing my dissertation, no prizes for guessing the subject) so here’s something I made earlier on Instagram. This series is one of the two main inspirations…
The Hopeful Edwardian 