Vera Brittain's moving and powerful memoir
about the Great War - Testament
of Youth - was an important part of my research for the first two
Muskoka Novels. A movie based on that
book is being released in Britain this week. I can hardly wait to see it!
It seems that the director took the same approach
as I did in The Summer Before the Storm – beginning with the genteel age of elegance
and innocence, and then plunging the characters into the brutal war that decimated a generation of young people
and forever changed those who survived.
Here is an interesting clip about the movie.
Notice at about 2:50 minutes in that the director actually talks about “the
summer before the storm”.
