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My Father's House: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS (Rome Escape Line Book 1)

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Other details pertaining to the mission and the participants can be gathered from written statements, pages from an unpublished memoir and interview transcripts of the choir members twenty years after the events (1962-63)which are interspersed throughout the narrative.

For those Romaphiles among us, we see the sights – to assist us, there is a detailed map inside the front cover (I love maps). The patterning of narrative, commentary, narrative etc, worked well to begin with but became repetitive by the halfway point. That book utilised a number of structural techniques including diary entries, letters and transcripts of conversations as well as more traditional third person narration, and the same is true of this latest novel.

Thank you to Dreamscape Media LLC for allowing me to listen to the audiobook of My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor through Netgalley in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. On Christmas Eve, 1943, a mission (code name Rendimento) was run by members of a choir and a network of accomplices. Based on true events, My Father’s House by Joseph O' Connor, the first in his Rome Escape Line Trilogy, is a fictionalized account of a secret mission (codename Redimento) carried out by Monsignor Hugh O’ Flaherty, an Irish Catholic priest, and his trusted accomplices during WWII. Life inside the Vatican is described in excellent detail as are the numerous back streets and hidden places in the city of Rome.

It alternated between the days in 1943 that led up to the Rendimento and then in 1963 when several members of The Choir were interviewed. It also sheltered escaped POWs, Jews, and other fugitives, who were hidden and then smuggled to safety.I was drawn to the novel as I know so little about Italian resistance and the plight of POWs held by the Germans in Italy. This enables the reader to hear their individual voices, to gain a strong sense of their different personalities and varied backgrounds and all are well fleshed out. For the most part, I enjoyed the pattern of alternating between that main story line and retrospective first-person accounts from the other 'choir members' involved in the conspiracy.

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