Another book finished....

Have just finished reading A Winter in China by Douglas Galbraith.

It is a very gentle book written about a very violent time. The author's style of writing paints incredibly vivid pictures of what his character's see and feel. His descriptions of his character's emotions are very evocative.

The book is set in China during The Rape of Nanking and is based around a British girl, Sally, her husband to be and a collection of other expatriates caught in Nanking. Although the book is written in a very gentle fashion, Galbraith does not leave out the violence of the atrocities that occurred in Nanking he just describes them in less clinical but no less horrific terms. Of course if you know nothing about the violence of the Rape of Nanking then the author's descriptions may wash over you - so to get the full impact of the book I would suggest a little background reading.


This link from Wikipedia gives a fair amount of information about the Rape of Nanking.

All in all, an excellent book and one that I shall be recommending to my friends.