The Welsh Girl

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Lacking something... submitted by crazypockets on June 28, 2013, 11:28am I read this because I'm interested in that part of the world and because it was written by a UofM professor of creative writing. But it honestly wasn't that great. I got what he was going for, and I liked the overall theme of showing the different perspectives of people involved in the war. But for something that was billed as a love story, there was almost no interaction between those two characters. Having parallel narratives is fine, but when the two hardly cross at all (maybe 10 pages were devoted to that?), it just felt hollow and like it was going nowhere. I think someone who was interested in military history, specifically POW history would probably enjoy this though.

welsh girl submitted by hcf on July 30, 2014, 8:14pm book about wwII

Novel about German POWs in Wales submitted by dicencal on June 28, 2017, 4:53pm This is a well-written, absorbing book about a town in Wales where they build a prisoner of war camp for German POWs during WWII. The story is just as much about the Welsh relationship to England as about Britain vs. Germany.

People and wars submitted by teri on August 12, 2018, 10:42am I enjoyed how this novel brought out the relationships between the Welsh and the English.
Three main characters make up most of the story: Rotherdam (British Intelligence Officer), Karsten (German POW prisoner), and Esther. Esther is a young Welsh woman who is infatuated with, and raped by, one of the London boys stationed in her town. It's a serious story of reconciliations and compromise.