Zennor In Darkness, Dunmore Helen

So engaging and evocative of a time both mythical and rooted in reality. Dunmore’s writing is a pleasure to read.

As always, Dunmore’s writing is rich in character, compelling story, beautiful writing.

I love Dunmore's writing. It pulls you straight into the story. The intriguing glimpse into the life of DH Lawrence has stimulated me to read more about him.

This is an amazing first novel by Helen Dunmore. It was hard to track down a copy but I perservered because I read that the setting is Cornwall during WWI (interesting time period) and that D.H.Lawrence (a favorite) and his wife are secondary characters. Dunmore captures the period and as far as I can remember about Lawrence (it's been awhile) his persona. Dunmore's switches in narrator flow smoothly. She convincingly captures the sense of place and time so that the reader feels the spray of the sea on the craggy inlets and feels the war's effect on all the characters.

Nothing in particular to recommend this novel. Not well researched regarding the Cornish whose dialect at the time would have been almost unintelligible to Lawrence. No reference to it in the book. I’m not sure what the motivation or the purpose of the story is. Generally speaking full with nothing much to recommend it.