Reviews

A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh

cimorene1558's review

5.0

Marvellous. Very hard, naturally, given it is all about Cold War Czechoslovakia, but very good.

jdukuray's review

3.0

I did not enjoy this as much as I recall enjoying Jill Paton Walsh's previous novel, Knowledge of Angels. But still there is something about her writing that I like. I got a little bogged down at points but am glad I finished. It is about being exiled from home, about the depredations of first the Nazis and then the Communists on a fictional East European country and a group of interconnected characters.