This book brought tears to my eyes several times and was the perfect thing to be reading on Remembrance Day. I now have a good understanding of the Vimy memorial in France. The characters in the book, who were mostly carvers of stone and wood were interesting enough. However, Urquhart is a bit too much of a romantic for my taste. I don't think I'll bother reading anything else by her.
Funny thing. In the book "Changing Heaven", one of the characters mentioned liking the word "drapery". And lo and behold.. Urquhart used that word so frequently in this book that it could have been a drinking game.
The main characters were Klara and Tillman from the Beck family. Klara lost her young lover to World War l. He went off to war hoping to fly an airplane. And Tillman was running away from home from an amazingly young age u til his parents chained him, compelling him to run away forever, with Klara's help.
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