Author:
The author of this book is H.E.BATES and I’m going to speak about he :
He was born on May 16, 1905 in Rushden, Northamptonshire and educated at Kettering Grammar School. After leaving school, he worked as a reporter and a warehouse clerk.
Many of his stories talk about life in the rural areas of England, particularly his native Northamptonshire. Bates was a great lover of the field and countries and he walked in there and that was his inspiration to write.
The first book published was The Two Sisters.
Plot:
This book has three different stories and I caught the last one, named The dam, because I like more than others.
The story is about a girl named Gerda who is sit in the garden of a hotel, behind in another chair there is man who is looking at her, and he is thinking that she’s very beautiful. The man go to she and they begin a conversation. He think that the women are precious, nice.. and he kiss the girl. During the days they fall in love. Other day they go to the station to see the daughter of the Gerda, but she wasn’t happy. The man, Graham, see her daughter, Linda and he think that she’s very very beautiful and she has his years more or less, not like her mother. In the end Graham and Linda fall in love because they begin to know, they have the similar years… and more. They go to live together and Gerda, the mother is sad…
Comentary:
I like the book because I didn’t imagine how will be the story, because it seemed to end Gerda with Graham but not… with Linda. I like very much the story and the book are easy for read but I didn’t understand some words.
Characters:
This story has only three characters and I like the mother because I think is the sincerest person about the rest and is unfair that in the end she is alone.
