The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
This debut novel by Jennifer Ryan was a delight! It is set at the beginning of World War II in a small British town and tells the intertwining stories of the women who form a choir in the wake of the disbanding of the church choir. What follows is part loss, romance, and skullduggery.
In spite of the very real losses, the tone of the book is uplifting and happy. And the writing itself is readable and has excellent pacing.
One small caveat, the book did start a bit slow, but that’s usually the case with an epistolary novel. Once the reader meets a several of the characters through letters and diary entries, the book is very hard to put down!
A five star read.
I received this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for a review.
Skullduggery in letters and diairies. Who knew?
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