My main issue, I think, was that the type of plot it was: one of my least favourites. It's a complex, melodramatic story, full of twists and turns, but I had too many issues with it to really enjoy it. It's clear to Leonora that there's some sort of mystery surrounding the circumstances of her birth, but it's only years later that an old soldier friend of her father's approaches her and tells her the whole story about what happened at Meongate, the family pile, around the time when Leonora was born. And so the story begins, starting with the story of Leonora's life, growing up with her villainous step-grandmother, who makes the girl's doubtful parentage clear and her life hell. It indicates he couldn't actually have been her father. The mother, Leonora, points out the date on her own father's gravestone. In Pale Battalions starts with two women, mother and daughter, visiting a 1st World War grave in northern France. Penelope at once supposes a simple wartime illegitimacy as the clue to her mother's unhappy childhood and the family's sundered connections with her aristocratic heritage, about which she has always known so little.īut nothing could have prepared her, or the reader, for the extraordinary story that is about to unfold. But Leonora wasn't born until 14th March 1917. The date of his death is recorded and 30th April, 1916. Amongst those commemorated is Leonora's father.
Their journey starts with an unscheduled stop at the imposing Thiepval Memorial to the dead of the Battle of the Somme near Amiens. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin.
Six months after her husband's sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for a holiday in Paris with her daughter Penelope.
Robert Goddard Booklist Robert Goddard Message Board Detailed plot synopsis reviews of In Pale Battalions Orphan Leonara Halloway was raised by her cold, vindictive step-grandmother and her distant, elderly grandfather. SETTING: Various points in 20th century England. > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< _In Pale Battalions by Robert Goddard Ebook Epub PDF web
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