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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Home Fires by Elizabeth Day 245 pages



Home Fires spans the years between the 1920s in London to the present, and tells the story of Elsa and her parents and Elsa’s son and his family.  Elsa’s father returns from WWII a troubled man and this changes the fabric of her childhood.  Her escape and marriage are her salvation and she manages to make herself into an elegant woman who is impatient with Caroline, the “common” wife of her son, Andrew.

Andrew and Caroline’s son Max is the apple of everyone’s eye and decides to forego college and enter the military.  In addition, Elsa soon becomes infirm and moves into Andrew and Caroline’s guest room.

Anyone with elderly parents will relate to the complications that this type of arrangement will produce.  Anyone with any kind of reality check will relate to what happens to the elderly when they can no longer recognize their own family members or remember what day or year it is or where they are.


This was an interesting book and focused mainly on the two women and their relationship.  I would recommend it and I think it would be a good book club book.

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