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In the Dark
by Deborah Moggach
from Vintage

Editorial Review:

`Earthy, original and very witty'

`Moggach effectively presents the psychological effects of war.. vividly evokes wartime London'

`In the Dark offers a pungently convincing account of what life in First World War London must have been like, with an unexpected and thrilling denouement'

'a compelling tale of secrets and desire'

`Her trademark blend of humour and pathos. The details of life in
an Edwardian household are researched to perfection'

'Moggach's writing is acutely sensitive...an accomplished story
teller with a finely tuned ear for dialogue...'

`Deborah Moggach uses period detail expertly: she fills her
charming novel with atmosphere'

`The story has a gentle insistence'

'The great joy of this tender little novel is Deborah Moggach's
sensory imagination'

`...a vivid evocation of lust and life on the home front.'

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Grim life in London, WWI.
  This is basically a love story set in the dark days of WWI, when soldiers are returning home unable to speak of the horrors that they have witnessed. As usual Deborah Moggach manages to explore the alternative facets of the time she is writing about, and that is what makes this such an enthralling read.
  The lives of the lodgers, the maid, who seems little more than a slave, but grateful to have a position, and Eithne and her son, who run the boarding house, are all portrayed in their grim reality; and... more info

• Brilliant!
  In the Dark Deborah Moggach has long been one of the best writers in English, and under-appreciated, but this is her best book to date. Many authors have described WW1 profiteers, but none ever managed to give them so much as a vestige of humanity. Moggach achieves this by first showing us the woman who will fall in love with profiteer Turk. She shows us the woman's despair, and how she needs to be rescued. Result: we fear troubles arriving for Turk because of what they will do to Eithne. A brilliant... more info

• Not one of her best!
  Moggach is my favourite writer of all time but this is the first book of hers that I couldn't finish, it just didn't hit the spot for me.

• In the Dark
  Deborah Moggach is one of those well-selling female authors who's sometimes looked down on for not being literary. Like Joanna Trollope or Anita Shreve, say her detractors, she's a popular - populist - author churning out domestic sagas on a conveyor belt.
  This simplification does these successful authors a disservice. They may deal with the everyday and their prose may indeed be accessible and non literary, but that doesn't mean their work should be undervalued. Any author that can bring reading to... more info

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