Warlight, Ondaatje - C

                                                Once again, the attraction of one of last year's notable books has eluded me.  This is a story told by a teenage, and then a decade or so older, man. His mother was a noted SOE agent during and after the war.  Abandoned and left with protectors, he and his sister live apparently aimless lives in London. His sister despises their mother; he idolizes her. After retiring, 'Viola' partially reconciles with her son and waits in the lonely English countryside for the revenge from the continent that she knows is coming.