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Book Reviews Title The Dark
Side Of The Sun Fiction-Net
Rating Buy It
From Amazon.co.uk - BUY
NOW! Cover
Story Growing up under
the spell of the captivating Harding family, Mary
Fox knows she will never share their good looks,
wealth or easy charm. For beautiful Godfrey,
outrageous Nettie and the twins Jonathon and
William, the world is theirs for the asking.
But when the
idyll is shattered by the outbreak of war, it is
Mary's brains that really count - while Nettie
finds a much more unusual way of helping the brave
boys fight Hitler… We
Say If you're
expecting 'The Dark Side of the Sun' to be an
entirely predictable wartime romantic story, then
don't worry - because that's exactly what it is.
It begins with
the arrival of a new governess and her daughter in
the wealthy Harding household. Every cliché
under both sides of the sun are deployed in the
telling of this tale. The difference between the
wealthy Harding daughter (flighty, promiscuous and
spoilt) and the not-so-wealthy servant's daughter
(modest, moral and bright) has been done a million
times before. There are several mysteries hinted at
within both families. At least, I think they were
meant to be hints - but it did feel rather more
like having a big flashing sign held up in front of
your nose every other page. With a cast of
characters that included names like Jonty, Nettie
and Godfrey, it was difficult not feel like I could
hear comedy upper class English accents as I was
reading. Of course, there were spies, bombs,
soldiers and tea dances and it was all terribly
spirited but tinged with predictable sadness
(although this was kept safely on the fringes). The
descriptions were excessively flowery and so laden
with romantic pretensions that it was difficult to
get to any sense of real meaning at all.
I'm probably
being too harsh and if it were made into a Sunday
night drama (which it would be perfect for), I'm
sure I'd be quite happily entertained for an hour
or two. But, for a novel, I felt that 'The Dark
Side of the Sun' didn't go deep enough into the
realities or inspire enough emotion. Review by: Rachel
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