One of the things I enjoyed most about this book was that the descriptions of both American and English ways of life hit exactly the right note. Kath Pharaoh's spartan existence in rural Norfolk, and her way of speaking, and even thinking, ring as true as the wisecracking wit and American domestic details of her transatlantic friends, living on an American airbase in Norfolk just after the war. The story spans forty years of their friendship, and some very different characters.
