The Dust That Falls from Dreams

Posted on 18 June 2017 by Louis de Bernières

In the brief golden years of King Edward VII s reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent, with their pals the Pitt boys on one side of the fence and the Pendennis boys on the other But their days of childhood innocence and adventure are destined to be followed by the apocalypse that will overwhelm their world as they come to adulthood.For Rosie, the path ahead is full of challenges torn between her love for two young men, her sense of duty and her will to live her life to the full, she has to navigate her way through extraordinary times Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War Louis de Berni res magnificent and moving novel follows the lives of an unforgettable cast of characters as the Edwardian age disintegrates into the Great War, and they strike out to seek what happiness can be salvaged from the ruins of the old world. Read The Dust That Falls from Dreams – kino-fada.fr ..I say Has some sneaky blighter slipped something into Louis de Berni res cocoa I am a huge, huge fan of the great man s work, but this, my erudite friends, is de Berni res on auto pilot This is de Berni res writing while the TV is on in the background.Make no mistake, there is a truly remarkable story here Problem is it s buried under reams of self satisfied tedium.It s 200 pages too long and should have been edit...This is a hard review for me to write because although it was certainly well written, are as all his books, this is such familiar territory, it has been done many times before An upper class English family during WWI, their neighbors, a young love that matures, and the effect the war has on all involved The writing was the best I believe in the air fight and trench segments Letters sent back home during the fighting Would have liked to have had adetailed accounting of the nursing that This is a hard review for me to write because although it was certainly well written, are as all his books, this is such familiar territory, it has been done many times before An upper class English family during WWI, their neighbors, a young love that matures, and the effect the war has on all involved The writing was the best I believe in the air fight and trench segments Letters sent back home during the fighting Would have liked to have had adetailed accounting of the nursing that Rosie eventually does, but here the author flailed.It is a good story, a rather long story, a generational type novel that one has to be in particular mood for Some of the characters wereinteresting than o...Parts are boring and so very conventional Absolutely nothing new, exactly what you have read in a million other historical fiction books about the First World War Yet my interest piqued as I watched the effect of the war on the McCosh family father, mother, four daughters Rosie, Christabel, Ottilie and Sophie and their devoted servants Cookie and Millicent as well as their two neighbors, the Pendennis and the Pitts, the first with three and the second with two sons liv...If you re like me, and have an interest in late 1800 s early 1900 s England that borders on obsession or if you just like a well written story , then you will definitely enjoy Louis de Berni res latest novel, The Dust That Falls From Dreams The only way I can possibly describe this novel, is that it is like a sweep of a paintbrush with every colour ima...A wonderful story and a very moving one, with a hint or a reminder of Downton Abbey about it.I feel like I ve wasted the last three weeks of my life reading this utterly boring, pointless, overly long book It was particularly disappointing since I loved Captain Corelli s mandolin so much This book had so much potential small things would happen throughout the book and I would finally feel a twinge of excitement, thinking the story was finally sta...This story centres around the McCosh family, an ordinary English family with four daughters and a batch of servants living a comfortable life in the start of the 20th century It follows their lives and those of their friends and neighbours through WWI and beyond into the rebuilding of a post war England Much of what happens to the McCosh s and their friends was being re enacted all over Europe The young men going to war, some dying, some returning maimed in body or soul, the women finding voc This story centres around the McCosh family, an ordinary English family with four daughters and a batch of servants living a comfortable life in the start of the 20th century It follows their lives and those of their friends and neighbours through WWI and beyond into the rebuilding of a post war England Much of what happens to the McCosh s and their friends was being re enacted all over Europe The young men going to war, some dying, some returning maimed in body or soul, the women finding vocations and a voice, morning the loss of loved ones and many questioning their faith Ultimately it is a love story and demonstrates the many types of love fierce, demonstrative, obsessi...This won t be my favourite of de Bernieres stories but it was still a good read with some moving and emotional scenes One thing de Bernieres does really well is tell people s stories, especially during war time and this was no exception We follow the lives of the McCosh family and those close to them during WWI and the aftermath I struggled a little to become totally immersed in these people s lives but there were a few that I warmed to Hamilton McCosh, the father, with his Scottish lilt and This won t be my favourite of de Bernieres stories but it was still a good read with some moving and emotional scenes One thing de Bernieres does really well is tell people s stories, especially during war time and this was no excepti...A few chapters in, I was bored and frustrated with the same old same old Horrors of the Great War and twee upstairs downstairs relationships And then de Bernieres, as he usually does, grabbed me gently by the throat and refused ...Love and loss on an intimate scale against the expansive backdrop of war, and the inner life of characters, is a particular interest of mine, especially when combined with exceptional writing Although I haven t read Corelli s Mandolin, I was predisposed toward this book by the description of its contents At first, the whimsical style bothered me, as the narrative dizzyingly described the death of Queen Victoria and the coronation of Edward VII, and jumped to the McCosh family But, I stuck wit Love and loss on an intimate scale against the expansive backdrop of war, and the inner life of characters, is a particular interest of mine, especially when combined with exceptional writing Although I haven t read Corelli s Mandolin, I was predisposed toward this book by the description of its contents At first, the whimsical style bothered me,...

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18 June 2017

Louis de Bernières