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The Greatcoat - Helen Dunmore

Jacqui [blogger]Posted by Jacqui [blogger] at 27/07/2012 16:44:26
Categories Novels
The Great Coat
 

This is an excellent short read and definitely for bedtime reading. Helen Dunmore gets straight into the story of a young doctors wife, Isabel, who is finding life in her husband's new job location lonely and isolated.  On a cold night Isabel awakes and discovers an old RAF great coat at the back of a cupboard, she lays the coat over herself in bed and dreams of a young RAF pilot. Soon after this, while her husband is out, Isabel hears a knock at her window and finds the pilot, Alec, outside. Isabels initial alarm soon fades and she begins an intense affair with the ghost pilot. Isabel finds out about Alec’s life and mystery ...

 

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