Sarah's Library

5/6 - A lovely little book written in the epistolary style. I haven't read an epistolary style novel in ages, probably not since the last time I read Bridget Jones' Diary, and it was a bit of a surprise. The plot wasn't exactly what I was expecting either, I had the impression that it was about how Londoners survived the harsh rationing and blackouts of WWII. I think I read the summary years ago, when I first added it to my '1001 books to read before I die' list, and somehow in the intervening years it all got muddled in my memory. Despite all that unexpectedness I'm glad I read it. As I said, it really was a lovely book, with a charming heroine. I really liked the letter-writing style and all the different voices, but there were a few I wanted to hear from whose voices I felt were missing from the story. I wanted to read Juliet's sister's (Sophie?, without the book in my hand I'm guessing here) replies to Juliet, and also her editor/publisher's (whatever he was, once again without the book, I haven't got a clue as to his name) replies to Juliet, as well. It wasn't enough for me to simply read Juliet's responses to their letters and guess at the content of the original letter that garnered those responses, I wanted to hear their voices, not just the responses to them. Those missing voices are the reason for the missing star.