My enormous thanks to Lissa Evans for ensuring I received a copy of her latest book, Small Bomb at Dimperley. I’m thrilled that it is my latest My Weekly magazine online review.
Small Bomb at Dimperley was published by Penguin imprint Doubleday on 5th September 2024 and is available for purchase through the links here.
Small Bomb at Dimperley
It’s 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home.
But ‘home’ is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-full of fly-blown taxidermy and dependent relatives, the latter clinging to a way of life that has gone forever.
And worst of all – following the death of his heroic older brother – Valentine is now Sir Valentine, and is responsible for the whole bloody place. To Valentine, it’s a millstone; to Zena Baxter, who has never really had a home before being evacuated there with her small daughter, it’s a place of wonder and sentiment, somewhere that she can’t bear to leave.
But Zena has been living with a secret, and the end of the war means she has to face a reckoning of her own…
Funny, sharp and touching, Small Bomb at Dimperley is both a love story and a bittersweet portrait of an era of profound loss, and renewal.
My Review of Small Bomb at Dimperley
My full review of Small Bomb at Dimperley can be found on the My Weekly website here.
However, here I can say that Small Bomb at Dimperley is deliciously witty and filled with glorious characters in a narrative that is warm, engaging and a sheer joy to read. I loved it and Lissa Evans has a new fan!
Do visit My Weekly to read my full review here.
About Lissa Evans
Lissa Evans has written books for both adults and children, including the bestselling Old Baggage, Their Finest Hour and a Half, longlisted for the Orange Prize, Small Change for Stuart, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Book Awards amongst others, and Crooked Heart, longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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