If I liked 'Life After Life'...

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What else would I like? I've got some Kindle vouchers and want to spend 'em. I am interested in WW1 and 2 from a woman's perspective, have read Birdsong, Atonement, Charlotte Grey, The Nightwatch and like that kind of melancholic, observational writing. I've recently purchased A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lose Agents of the SOE but am finding it a bit dry. Does anyone have any suggestions please?

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young? Poignant, beautifully written and heartbreakingly sad in places - WW1.

The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal. NF, but might fit the bill.

Thanks Duchess I've just downloaded the Louisa Young one, looks good!

I liked My Dear I Wanted to Tell You too. Well worth a read.

Restless by William Boyd is quite different but a good read.. the story of a young Russian woman working for the British secret service during WWII.

22 Britannia Road tells the story of a Polish couple and their son, separated during the war and struggling to re-establish their family life afterwards.

And if you are interested in the Kindertransport, try Far to Go by Alison Pick. Describes a Czech family, their fears as the Nazis gain a hold on their country, and the decision they eventually reach to entrust their young son to an unknown family in Britain. The author's own family fled to Canada prior to WW2; it's not their story, but very much rooted in true accounts of children who escaped.

Thanks highland these sound great too. Plenty to keep me going

I would second Restless. Also, The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer - it's the story of a British woman working undercover in occupied Germany.

I think the most haunting books about WWI are the Pat Barker Regeneration trilogy. They are not written from a woman's point of view but I read them when they were first published roughly 20 years ago and I still remember them really well.