{"id":2754,"date":"2012-10-12T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T06:46:55","slug":"my-favourite-novels-about-britain-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/my-favourite-novels-about-britain-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favourite Novels About Britain At War"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.<\/strong> Small Island<\/em><\/a> by Andrea Levy\"'Small<\/a><\/p>\n

Jamaican airmen stationed in England during the Second World War find that the ‘Mother Country’ is less welcoming than they’d expected.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> The Charioteer<\/em><\/a> by Mary Renault<\/p>\n

A soldier wounded at Dunkirk and recovering in an English hospital falls in love with a conscientious objector working as a hospital wardsman.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Marking Time<\/em> and Confusion<\/em> from the Cazalet Chronicles<\/a> by Elizabeth Jane Howard<\/p>\n

The Cazalet family’s privileged lives are changed forever when England goes to war.<\/p>\n

\"'Westwood'<\/a>4.<\/strong> Westwood<\/em><\/a> by Stella Gibbons<\/p>\n

Plain, bookish Margaret and her beautiful friend Hilda are drawn into the orbit of a pompous playwright in Blitz-battered London \u2013 but who is exploiting whom?<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> The Night Watch<\/em><\/a> by Sarah Waters<\/p>\n

Four Londoners \u2013 all on the outskirts of society because they’ve fallen in love with the wrong people, all terribly damaged by the war \u2013 have their interlinking stories gradually revealed in a clever narrative that travels backwards through the 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Small Island by Andrea Levy Jamaican airmen stationed in England during the Second World War find that the ‘Mother Country’ is less welcoming than they’d expected. 2. The Charioteer by Mary Renault A soldier wounded at Dunkirk and recovering in an English hospital falls in love with a conscientious objector working as a hospital … Continue reading My Favourite Novels About Britain At War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,5],"tags":[182,74,181,183,114],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgb","category-my-favourite-books","category-wwii","tag-andrea-levy","tag-elizabeth-jane-howard","tag-mary-renault","tag-sarah-waters","tag-stella-gibbons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5046,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}