A review by lynnedf
All Our Worldly Goods by Irène Némirovsky

4.0

I loved this book! A simple tale of love and living. Nothing torrid, nothing shocking. Nothing to keep you on your toes. But it's so well written you don't care ... or need any of that. This books starts off on the beaches of Normandy in 1910 and takes us all the way to Paris and back, through the Great War and into the beginings of the second world war. I think I loved it because she was writting about things that had either just happened, or were happening. There is no 20 - 20 hindsight, there is not thoughtful gap between the war and the writing of the book. It is simply a story of the times, about the times. If you loved Suite Française - then you should give this book a try. I think you'll soon fall in love with it.