Another historical novella set in the post-WWI era, this story has so many things I like: class differences, someone getting injured and being nursed back to health (wrong time period, but it made me think of Austen), a young man drawing another man out of his melancholy shell. Philip had been the withdrawn and unhappy lord of his manor ever since his 'close friend' from Oxford had died of the flu after having survived the war. He's forced to engage with someone beyond his servants when Danny falls out of a tree after poaching rabbits on Philip's estate in order to feed his mother and four siblings.
There isn't a lot to this story beyond the setup, which I actually liked - it's not that complicated, and neither of them need to have long drawn out arcs. They're two people who needed to find one another for very different reasons, and it's lovely to see them make each other happy.
Grade: B
There isn't a lot to this story beyond the setup, which I actually liked - it's not that complicated, and neither of them need to have long drawn out arcs. They're two people who needed to find one another for very different reasons, and it's lovely to see them make each other happy.
Grade: B
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