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Book review: Saga of one girl’s wartime journey is strangely bloodless and fails to ignite
The central character in A Complicated Matter is a little dull while the novel is likely to prove way too cosy a read for audiences raised on stronger meat
Anne Youngson’s fourth novel is a classic bildungsroman. It charts the wartime journey of Rose Dunbar from her birthplace in Gibraltar to the village of Easterbrook deep in the English countryside where, in due course, she will meet her fate.
The year is 1940 and World War II is intensifying. Rose, along with her sick mother, sister-in-law and two children, is forced to evacuate the island, leaving behind her father and older brother. The journey’s ...
