Pride of Poppies - my favourite story in the anthology

[charlie_cochrane]

And the winner is... At the Gate by jaylewistaylor. My notes contain a single word; stunning.

It's not long ago I came across Scrimgeour's Small Scribbling Diaries, which is one of the most powerfully moving books I've ever encountered about WWI. "At the Gate" reproduced an authentic atmosphere of men at sea, living the claustrophobic lives that young Scrimgeour would have known.

I'd have given my eye teeth to have written that story.

Comments

[jaylewistaylor.livejournal.com]

For once I am lost for words...

Er, thanks.

Very much!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

At least you're not lost for words when you write.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Loved that one so much. It reminded me very much of The Cruel Sea.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

*nods* It was wonderfully masculine, if that makes any sense.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I've remembered now. Yes the book did remind me of the Cruel Sea but the book title that was hovering just out of reach was Monsarratt's HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour, a story that moved me to floods of tears, and that's pretty hard to do.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've not read that one. Thanks for the tip!