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Wild Lavender by
Belinda Alexandra
Harper Collins, Sydney 2005
Wild Lavender is a big book
- which is great as you
really get the chance to
know the characters and feel
involved in their lives. It
covers nearly twenty years
of the life of a French
woman Simone Fleurier.
Her life covers living on a
quiet farm and in cities,
the show business world and
Nazi-controlled France, so
there is a lot of variety in
the story.
Simone's life isn't a fairy
tale, although she has a
number of successes, and
terrible things do happen to
her starting with the death
of her beloved father and
ending with the loss of
friends during the war.
Alexandra weaves her story
amongst the real event and
people of France so that I
almost believed Simone was a
real person rather than a
fictional character.
It isn't a story to be
categorised - there is a
rags to riches element, but
it is also a war story;
there are three love stories
as well as bitterness and
jealously causing problems.
Bit it is a story to
recommend - I really enjoyed
reading Wild Lavender and
look forward to reading
Alexandra's work again.
Tash Hughes is a Mum of two in Melbourne. She is also a writer and owner of Word
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