Title: After the War is Over      

Author: Jennifer Robson  

Genre: Historical Fiction     

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Format: Paperback

Pages: 353

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (Goodreads):

The USA Today and #1 Toronto Globe & Mail bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom reminiscent of Downton Abbey—in which a young woman must choose between her independence and the aristocrat she loves

With the Great War finally at an end, life must go on for those who have survived. Charlotte Brown witnessed the devastation war wrought as a nurse, but after the war she decides to resume her career as a social worker in Liverpool. There she helps others to better their lives, even as she struggles to forge a future of her own. Charlotte is fortunate to have friends old and new to guide her, including the women at her boarding house, her colleagues, and a radical young newspaper editor with romantic hopes.

But a chance encounter with Edward, her dearest friend’s brother, pulls Charlotte back into the past. Once charming and infuriatingly arrogant, the new Earl of Cumberland has become another casualty of the war. Still, Charlotte sees the specter of the captivating man he once was, and she knows he could offer her a life far different from the one she has now. But being the wife of aristocrat comes with a price the independent young woman can’t bear to pay.

As the country seethes with unrest, and post-war euphoria flattens into bitter disappointment, Charlotte must make an impossible choice: keep her freedom, or turn her back on the only man she has ever loved?

Review:

I finally read the next book in the Great War Series!! I read the first book and the third book 3 years ago and then I realized later that there was a middle book! It bothered me that I read them out of order, but turns out it only ruined things a little bit!

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The book takes place after the First World War and focuses on secondary characters from the first book, Charlotte Brown and Edward Ashford. Charlotte is a kind and caring person, who is working for a charity and ends up writing a column in a newspaper talking about how families and people are affected by the war and how they can’t make ends meet. Charlotte is the kind of person who wants to fight for those who don’t have a voice, and I found this aspect really helped me make a connection to her as a reader! I also really liked that she wasn’t afraid to put Lord Edward Ashford in his place and call him out for being ignorant!

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While this one may not be a favourite of mine, as I just recently read the Gown by this author and was blown away, it was definitely a good read and I really enjoyed it! A nice easy read to help take your mind off things when you’re having a busy and stressful week!

Happy reading!