![]() The Shouting Wind is a solid, readable book with likeable characters and an emotional core. Newbery is gifted at mixing the banal with the bloody without slipping into bathos. ![]() There’s some very solid detail and historical colour here which is handled well, and I really liked the details of base life. ![]() The Shouting Wind (something about that title does not sit right for me) is the story of Kay, who joins the WAAF during WW2. I actually think Newbery’s written better books that deal with similar thematic elements and a similar historical time period (see the previous two titles mentioned). Newbery has a freshness and a sensitivity to her work that can be outstanding.Īnd yet, for some reason, The Shouting Wind did not really work for me. ![]() She’s a superb writer Polly’s March for example is genuinely one of the best historical YA books I’ve read for a long while and the same goes for Some Other War. It’s the first of a trilogy concerning the lives of a grandmother, mother, and daughter in the same family and is followed by The Cliff Path and A Fear Of Heights The idea of a female-centred, multi-generational family story is something that really very much appeals to me. ![]() I picked up The Shouting Wind primarily due to the strapline on the front: “Three lives, three times, three heroines who dare to be different”. ![]()
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