Monday 20 July 2020

Reviews please



From time to time I’ll make an appeal here for a review. Reviews are so important for writers. I’ve actually taken the decision to review every single book I read.  Often it’ll just be a two- line review. It’s not too onerous at all. I’ve not yet had to give a terrible review - I guess that’s because I tend to read the books I’m likely to like.
 I’m taking the view that if I want people to review my books it’s only fair that I should review others’ books.  Besides, if I’m reviewing everything I’m reading, then my reviews are legitimate; I’m not just doing mates favours.
Here's the blurb:

"Girl in a Smart Uniform" is the third book in the Schellberg Cycle, a collection of novels inspired by a bundle of photocopied letters that arrived at a small cottage in Wales in 1979. The letters give us first-hand insights into what life was like growing up in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

It is the most fictional of the stories to date, though some characters, familiar to those who have read the first two books, appear again here. Clara Lehrs, Karl Schubert and Dr Kühn really existed. We have a few, a very few, verifiable facts about them. The rest we have had to find out by repeating some of their experiences and by using the careful writer's imagination.

Gisela adores her brother Bear, her gorgeous BDM uniform, and her little half-brother Jens. She does her best to be a good German citizen, and is keen to help restore Germany to its former glory. She becomes a competent and respected BDM leader. But life begins to turn sour. Her oldest brother Kurt can be violent, she soon realises that she is different from other girls, she feels uncomfortable around her mother’s new lover, and there is something not quite right about Jens. It becomes more and more difficult to be the perfect German young woman.

We know that BDM girls set fire to the house in Schellberg Street but got the children out first. This story seeks to explain what motivated the girls to do that, and what happened to them afterwards. 

So, if the book mentioned above appeals, I’m willing to supply a PDF or mobi-file for review. Just contact me via the form here.       

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