“The mind remembers what the soul can bear.”“It was so much easier to knock down than build up: a city raised over millennia could be razed in a day; the life of a man ended in a second’s crack. In years to come, Edmund and his children would know the names of planes and tanks and battles and invasions and recall with facility the atrocities of the age, the names of those who committed them. But would any of them be able to name a single repairer of the breach or fixer of broken walls?”
This is the point- Who will remember the fixer of such despair?
The characters in this were engrossing but the story itself left a bit of hopeful strength as it seems at times disjointed and not quite woven completely together.
It was a story of pain, suffering, and anguish but also rebirth and refocus and so for that I applaud the author because of the central focus which underlying all else.
It was a good read for anyone who loves historical fiction.
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