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Bombers' Moon
By Iris Gower
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At the height of WWII, two Welsh sisters struggle for survival—and the love of the same man—in this novel from the bestselling author of Spinner’s Warf.
1941. Motherless Meryl Jones and her older sister, Hari, are living together in Swansea during World War II while their father is fighting in the war. After their home is destroyed in an air raid, thirteen-year-old Meryl is evacuated to Carmarthen. Hari visits her sister in the countryside, but has a wartime job in the city, and is living a life of air raids, dangerous work, and meeting young soldiers and airmen at night.
Meryl eventually ends up on a farm owned by a kind Welsh woman, and falls for her son Michael—who is half German—but Michael becomes smitten with Hari. Then the military police come for Michael. Meryl poses as his wife to help him escape, and their relationship blossoms. But, as the war ends, Meryl knows that the man she loves will have to make a fateful choice between her and her sister.
1941. Motherless Meryl Jones and her older sister, Hari, are living together in Swansea during World War II while their father is fighting in the war. After their home is destroyed in an air raid, thirteen-year-old Meryl is evacuated to Carmarthen. Hari visits her sister in the countryside, but has a wartime job in the city, and is living a life of air raids, dangerous work, and meeting young soldiers and airmen at night.
Meryl eventually ends up on a farm owned by a kind Welsh woman, and falls for her son Michael—who is half German—but Michael becomes smitten with Hari. Then the military police come for Michael. Meryl poses as his wife to help him escape, and their relationship blossoms. But, as the war ends, Meryl knows that the man she loves will have to make a fateful choice between her and her sister.
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Iris Gower
Iris Gower was born in Swansea where she lived all her life. The mother of four adult children, she wrote over twenty bestselling novels, many of which are based around Swansea and the Gower peninsula, from which she took her pseudonym. She received an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Wales Swansea in 1999 and was awarded an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cardiff.
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Reviews for Bombers' Moon
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5It's not often I abandon a book, but I know I'm stressed & tired and the last thing I need is to listen to a book in the car that's only annoying me. I got to the start of the 3rd CD (out of 8) before throwing in the towel, but I couldn't bear to listen to anymore trite goings on. From as far as I got, it's set in Swansea in WW2. Hari & Meryl are sisters with a dead mother & a father away in the army. They're bombed out of their house and Meryl is evacuated, while Hari is working in communications at a shell factory (really?). She got given a morse receiver & told to work out how it worked (no instruction, nothing) then sent to take a bag to Bletchley park followed by a bag to the Prime minister. In a borrowed jeep. A girl who could barely drive at the beginning of the book. At that point I decided the blood pressure had risen enough and it was time to stop. But it was Hari's friend Kate who seemed to get all the plot cliches. She gave herself to some airmen because they were frightened. Then found a bloke she loved only he then found out and dumped her - but not before a desperate last shag - when she falls pregnant. She almost has an abortion, but changes her mind, only to loose the baby and her sight in an explosion at the shell factory - only person in the vicinity left alive. At which point the errant boyfriend comes back & swear he loves her, which is a god thing as a bomb has fallen on her family home and killed her entire family. Then the BF goes back to the front and is missing in action. Are there any other hardships that could befall a girl in the space of 2 CDs? because I'm not sure I could think of any.This was just too superficial and relied too much on extreme levels of coincidence to be an interesting or enjoyable read. Struck me as dated (although i don't think it is) or written for my granny - it would have been right up her street.