This was a wonderfully different WWII love story! I was engrossed from start to finish. It follows a British farm girl named Joan whose brother is in the British Air Force and is missing in action, who encounters a downed German airman (Deter) on her farm. He doesn’t believe strongly in the war either — like her brother, like so many soldiers in war, he had no choice and just did what he was told. The whole community saw the airmen bail out and they know they’re somewhere nearby. It’s Joan’s mother who convinces Joan that they can’t turn Deter in, as Deter reminds her mother of the son she lost. She hopes that, in some karmic way, if she takes care of Deter, someone else might do the same for her son in a foreign land too. Eventually Joan comes to trust Deter, and the two fall in love. It seems doomed from the start… but it manages to have a believable happily ever after.
My rating: *****
Language: none
Sexual content: none (except for an attempted rape scene but it never gets that far)
Violence: none except for the above
Political content: none
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