Dead To Me
It's another chilly afternoon where the clothing layers keep getting more and more. After way too much excitement and getting soaked at the Justin Bieber concert last Sunday, I have finally made time to settle in with some Milkylane and the book Dead to Me. Dead To Me by Lesley Pearse has sold over 10 million copies and is the perfect read for the cold Johannesburg days that we've been experiencing lately. The epic historical drama in itself is enough to send a shiver up your spine as you journey with the proteges from 1935 through the war years unpacking on themes closely related to most of us- friendship, love and the test of time. In a story of broken friendships we are time and time again confronted with questions as to whether forgiveness is really worth it, if friends are worth forgiving and if some things can be forgotten? In our non fictional lives, we all at some point become baffled with these questions when we too face a similar or entirely different but equally painful encounter with friends or loved ones.
Two unlikely souls Ruby and Verity have a chance encounter and an unexpected friendship is formed between the two girls who are miles apart in wealth, status and lifestyles. Verity is the epitome of classy sharing a home with her parents whilst Ruby has to resort to stealing in order to make ends meet. Their friendship is the bond that keeps them strong when during the British war time they are forced to experience living lives they are not used to. As their situations gets reversed it is Ruby who finds herself romancing in Devon whilst Verity battles to escape the demons from her past.
Based on many of our own experiences we can safely say that friendship is not the tug rope that does not break if pulled too hard and when Verity does the unmentionable act that rips Ruby's heart its inevitable that the same friendship that kept them from breaking has now broken. Like their broken country; are these two girls destined to have their friendship broken too or will the girls survive the war and the betrayal and find their way back to each other? Is some things just not worth forgiving until death?
Marie Claire magazine stated that this book is a gripping tale of war and friendship but from the way I see it its the cold reality of friendships that like any other relationship is fragile and can be easily destroyed in an instant just like the brutal reality of war unexpectedly looming upon a country destroying everything in its wake. This is certainly a read for those historical fiction lovers as the journey with Ruby and Verity in the Spring of 1935 in England is most truly a trip back in time that is worth taking.
Two unlikely souls Ruby and Verity have a chance encounter and an unexpected friendship is formed between the two girls who are miles apart in wealth, status and lifestyles. Verity is the epitome of classy sharing a home with her parents whilst Ruby has to resort to stealing in order to make ends meet. Their friendship is the bond that keeps them strong when during the British war time they are forced to experience living lives they are not used to. As their situations gets reversed it is Ruby who finds herself romancing in Devon whilst Verity battles to escape the demons from her past.
Based on many of our own experiences we can safely say that friendship is not the tug rope that does not break if pulled too hard and when Verity does the unmentionable act that rips Ruby's heart its inevitable that the same friendship that kept them from breaking has now broken. Like their broken country; are these two girls destined to have their friendship broken too or will the girls survive the war and the betrayal and find their way back to each other? Is some things just not worth forgiving until death?
Marie Claire magazine stated that this book is a gripping tale of war and friendship but from the way I see it its the cold reality of friendships that like any other relationship is fragile and can be easily destroyed in an instant just like the brutal reality of war unexpectedly looming upon a country destroying everything in its wake. This is certainly a read for those historical fiction lovers as the journey with Ruby and Verity in the Spring of 1935 in England is most truly a trip back in time that is worth taking.
Available: Penguin Books
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