Showing posts with label Posy Lovell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Posy Lovell. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2022

The Kew Gardens Girls

How sad is it when you finish a novel on Friday, go to write the review on Monday and can't remember very much about it? That's the case with Posy Lovell's The Kew Garden Girls.

I read much more about World War II than about World War I so that part was refreshing. I'm not sure what it was that I didn't love about the novel. Perhaps because I found it predictable and wish the characters had been developed a little bit more than they were. I wish there had been a little bit more about the interaction of all the women working in the gardens and not just the three who were the main characters of the story.

I was interesting in reading about the treatment of conscientious objectors during World War I in England. I was disheartened to learn about the women's fight for equal wages, a fight that continues even now, over 100 years later. How terrible is that?

I there was a little more history of this historical fiction. It was a quick, easy, enjoyable enough read, but I wanted more!