Ann’s Reviews > A Rose and a Promise > Status Update

Not enjoying this at all. Obviously no research done at all. One of the characters, whilst viewing a bombed pub, asks why it hasn’t been rebuilt! Most able bodied men were in the forces, this was 1944, building materials were in very short supply, all production was geared towards the war effort. Doesn’t anyone edit these books?

I've always liked Katie Flynn novels but this one is driving me mad! It's set during the war but everything about seems wrong to me, the names of the characters seem too modern, Cadie, Jez, Raquel! the generation were Alice, Mary, Dorothy and Joan. It starts off with a group of friends meeting in a pub and having a meal, I'm pretty sure pubs didn't serve meals back then. Bar snacks only came in in the 60s/70s.