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Book Review of The Last Camellia: A Novel

The Last Camellia: A Novel
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My least favourite book by this author. Not very fleshed out characters but what really bothered me was a lack of research or knowledge about England in 1940...the author had characters wondering if there was going to be a war...in reality, war was declared in 1939, the debacle of Dunkirk was in May and June if 1940, invasion of England by Germany was a very real possibility...the London Blitz began in September... I had so much trouble with the author's apparent lack of knowledge about the time and place that she was writing about that it completely robbed me of any enjoyment that might have been there for the taking.