![]() What follows is a beautifully written novel about these four characters, their hardships, and loves. ![]() ![]() They become very close friends, and Colette begins to fall in love with charismatic Aubrey, who's jazz is redefining the world of music. Distraught over the fate of James, Hazel, eager to help the war effort, enlists as a pianist at a volunteer job and meets Colette, a fellow volunteer. Hazel and James meet and fall in love days before he is shipped off to the Front to face deadly combat in the WWI trenches. The book centers on four young people who's path's cross during WWI- British Hazel Windicott, a pianist, and James Alderidge, a would-be architect shipped off to war, Colette Fournier, a Belgian singer who lost her family at the hands of the Germans, and Aubrey Edwards, a black American solider in a jazz military band in a time of military prejudice and racial discrimination. Romances, and was not disappointed by this amazing story. I chose Lovely War because of my interest in historical fiction, especially historical Lovely War by Julie Berry is such a wonderful book about two couples in the tragic and terrible days of WWI as narrated by the Greek Gods. ![]()
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