The comment of the Times seems to me very fair: "An ode to a vanished world deeply moving and deliciously romantic." The war is omnipresent, as it is not paradise described: discussed a lot of love so much suffering - - The separation of a united family which involve tearing, fears, questions - the flight of childhood - - To leave a country for another unknown = uprooting. The noise of war swells: England prepares for conflict - to do his duty. Participation in the evacuation of Dunkirk soldiers called the courage and the investment of each, to solidarity. A page turns and means the end of linsouciance for a youth. But Lesperance and life remain and bounce. Heroin is endearing and the portrait of two main male figures complement each in all the fire of his youth, the other in the strength and extent of maturity. An ode? a painting? a song? surely a success. To advise all those who love the pleasure of words, colors, scents, music of nature and man. I think to keep a book in his library and share.
