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Anna Bliss, the author of “Bonfire Night” has written a captivating and memorable novel. The Genres for this novel are Historical Fiction, World War Two, Romance, and Fiction. In this well written and vividly described novel, the author takes us back in time to 1936, to England, where Kate Grifferty, is a photographic journalist. Although, the year might be 1936, Kate is a modernized version of the “Me-Too” movement. Kate puts herself in great risk and danger to take photographs into a man’s world. Kate meets David Rabatkin, a Jewish medical intern, who is completing his last year of medical school. In David’s family, the only acceptable wife for him can be a Jewish girl. Kate is an Irish Catholic girl, brought up by an indifferent and strong willed father. Kate is not a conventional young women, and understands that she and David cannot marry.
Unexpected circumstances force Kate to work in her sister’s boarding house, and David is a physician in London, treating patients hurt in the Blitz. Survival is the key. Kate doesn’t take pictures for several years, and then starts to take pictures from her perspective of what is going on in the world.
I highly recommend this thought-provoking and heart-felt novel to others. I appreciate the research that the author has provided during this timeline, and discusses the hopes and dreams of those during the war.
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