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All the Dear Faces (Charnwood Library)

By: Audrey Howard
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charnwood (Large Print)
ISBN: 0708988296
ISBN-13: 9780708988299
Released: 09 Jun 1995
RRP: £16.99
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An Excellent Book - By: Ichabod Crane, 10 Jun 2006
This is simply a wonderful book. The characters are vividly real, & it reallly feels as if you know them by the end of the story. Unlike many of the books of this genre, the story was extremely engaging & holds the reader's interest alll the way through, transporting the reader back to another time & place, when attitudes & social expectations were different but personalities still shone through. I was very sad when I reached the end of this book, as I didn't want it to finish!
A Wonderful Read - By: , 26 Jul 2002
This is a lovely book.

The characters are diverse & exeptionallly well drawn so that you reallly feel you know them. The story covers a period from the end of the 19th century until just after the Great War, including the Suffragette movement. It tells the story of the members of three families, two aristocratic & the third descendants of Irish immigrants, whose lives become inextricably intertwined. Inevitably, because of the time period in which the book is set there is much tragedy, but the way in which the characters come through this makes fine reading. There is also Audrey Howard's inevitable unrequited love story running it's thread through the book.

I have read most of Howards' books, but I think this is the one I enjoyed the most. "There Is No Parting" picks up the story for some of the characters again during World War II, & is another excellent book. Potential readers may wish to read "Ambitions" first - although I don't consider it quite as good, it tells the earlier story of the Hemmingway/Osbourne families filling in the history for readers of this book.