After the War Is over

from wagner.sarah35

A good read set in post-WWI England as Charlotte Brown struggles to reclaim the man she fell in love with during the war. I appreciated this book for the depiction of the struggles post-war Britain faced - the return of injured soldiers, the struggle of families to stay afloat as the economy rapi...

from mcgeerhonda

I might have had my hopes set to high, but I was expecting more from this novel than it delivered. Since I'm a fan of this genre and era, I might hoped it might have been more intriguing.

from melinda_hence

Robson's reminiscent description of post-War England is well done along character development. Charlotte is an admirable liberal woman - university educated (Oxford graduate) only child of a vicar, nurse, intelligent and fiercely independent, a woman most would emulate. She's also a people please...

from SilversReviews

Charlotte graduated from an elite college, became a governess,​ worked as a nurse during the war, ​worked in an office with a female boss who was a suffragist, and then​ became a journalist. ​Charlotte's job as a governess turned out to be quite unpleasant, but she did meet a man she could never ...

from Herenya

This novel is a series of snapshots of the life of Charlotte Brown, an educated unmarried woman of thirty-three, in 1919 -- working for a Liverpool ward councillor, writing a newspaper column about the plights of the poor, and living in a boarding house. It also has flashbacks to her time at Oxfo...