What Once Was True, Grainger - B
I purchased this because it was presented as an Irish WW2 novel, and the simple uniqueness of that intrigued me. It's more of a romance themed soap opera, but did offer limited insight into the Republic's position of neutrality. It had been less than twenty years since the English had been ousted and it was simply too soon to move past 800 years of oppression and oppose the forces of evil in Germany. In the novel, an Anglo-Irish Lord dies, leaving his family bereft, causing his wife to leave and lease out the land, and compelling the family that worked the land to also leave. The central story is the love between the young RAF pilot who succeeds his dad and the 3rd daughter of the long-time manager of the farm. The farm manager has some interesting IRA skeletons in the closet as well. It's not especially compelling, but I'll likely read the next two books in the trilogy.
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