Afterwards--#24 finished

An English book or I guess a book about British people. A good story, not a lot of action and lots left unsaid but really interesting still. Sometimes I was caught up with the thought of why don't they just open up and talk about their past, but then there would not have been a book. I am sure though that there are people like this. Alice is single & 38, was raised by her mother, her dad completely out of the picture except for some recent letters. Alice's grandparents did much in raising her also. Well her grandmother is recently deceased so Alice is now spending time with just her grandfather who is much less open and forthcoming about most everything, so this relationship is strained without grandmother there.

Well, Alice starts dating Joseph and everything seems fine but slowly Alice realizes there are large parts of Joseph's life she know nothing about. Joseph served in the Army and at one point during a checkpoint, he had to shoot and kill a man. Even though this man was found to have a gun and could have killed the other solider, Joseph cannot let it go that he had to kill a man. He goes months or years without it really bothering him but then all at once it kind of sets off and he disappears. Well through in Alice's grandfather's military service as a bomber in Kenya and Joseph helping out at the house and it sets it off.

Well, obviously there is more to it than this but this is kind of a gist of it. A good read and does make you think with the 2 wars going on, all of the scarred people coming back from that.

I will be posting this book sometime soon, there are 2 WL for it so want to get it moved while I still can. I am still holding Rules of Vengeance, so I might post it as well, get to the post office just once then.