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Wren Jane Beacon at War

A powerful, but deeply considered evocation of an adventurous young girl’s coming of age during World War Two. Danger, romance and reflection combine to bring to life her epic journey. Recently returned from the hell of Dunkirk, the story opens with Wren Jane Beacon recovering in a hospital bed. However, her ‘survival’ also has a very different, more personal meaning. With her own inner battle raging, an irate Royal Navy wants to sack her for disobeying orders while the Army wants to recognize her heroic deeds on the Dunkirk beaches. Her mantra, “I will not be defeated” holds true and neither a naval tribunal nor an angry Admiral can bring her down. Should women be involved in front line war?

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Book One left Jane Beacon arriving in Dover to continue her duties as the pioneer boat crew Wren.  While the consequences of her adventures at Dunkirk shape her life through Book Two as well, this second volume in the saga moves on.  This is helped by the Army’s determination to recognize her heroism and causes the Navy to keep her, mainly to thwart the Army.

Should women be involved in front line war? Sent home on convalescent leave, her family debate this with their scarred daughter, illuminated by their own haunting memories of World War One.  This leaves her with a much more thoughtful view of her place in war.

Back on active duty in Dover, her natural seamanship abilities lead the authorities to give Jane her own boat, and with a Wren crewmate she rescues downed airmen at sea during the Battle of Britain. An explosive affair with one of them follows, before Jane’s bravery is recognized with a clutch of medals bestowed on her at Buckingham Palace. At the ceremony, she meets again a naval officer she rescued at Dunkirk and under the pressures of wartime, it is love at first sight.  This is deep, total overwhelming first real love and a whole new way of seeing her life is opened for Jane.

After reading Wren Jane Beacon Goes To War last year, I was keen to find out what has happened to Jane since. The book begins with Jane recovering in hospital and reliving her time at Dunkirk. She risks being sacked for disobeying orders at a tribunal, but comes through and is given another chance to prove herself. What follows are the horrors of war, rescues, an affair that causes heartache but also finally romance and recognition for Jane’s war efforts. All in all a riveting novel and the reader feels that he/she is there on the battlefields with very accurate descriptive chapters of the places involved.

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