To be truly engaged with this novel, you need to care what happens to Eva. My primary problem was that Eva is really rather stupid, and I found it hard to maintain my sympathy for her. In the end, I think it was an accumulation of small things that made this novel uninteresting to me. We learn of her passions and desires, and also the troubles she stumbles into. She determines to find Eva – or at least, find out what happened to her.īeginning in the pre-war years, alternate chapters tell Eva’s story from her point of view. Arabella proposes to use some of these to explore women’s lives during World War II.Īs Maddie begins to interview Precious to discover the stories behind specific outfits, she begins to hear about Precious’ friend Eva, never seen or heard of since the war. A former model, she has an extensive collection of clothes. Arabella’s relative, Precious, is nearly 100 years old. Her university friend Arabella has invited her to write an article for Vogue, designed to accompany an exhibition. Hailing from the American south, she went to university in England, and has since made her home in New York. In the present (2019), Maddie is an American freelance journalist. I didn’t find it engrossing, instead rather average, but I can picture other readers finding it a stronger novel. “The Last Night In London” uses the familiar structure of two entwined story lines, one in the past and one in the present.
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