La's orchestra saves the world is a different book coming from Alexander McCall-Smith, in so many ways it is more serious than his previous books I have read. It's set during the Second World War in England in Southern England countryside in a small village next door to a RAF airbase. La (or Lavender which is her full name) has moved there from London after her husband first abandoned her and then suddenly passed away. She is doing her lot for the war, working on a farm, taking care of the hens, befriending a military man, when the idea for an orchestra is born.
Despite the title, as often is with McCall-Smith's books, the orchestra is not the dominating feature in the book, rather it is a book about the war and the effect it had on people in all walks of life, even a sleepy village in the back country of England.
Well written as many other of McCall-Smith's books are, I am hoping for a second book.
Josefine
Title: La's orchestra saves the world Author: Alexander McCall-Smith ISBN: 978-0-349-12205-2
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