Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers

Postcards from No Man's Land is a book that I was bought as a present, I initially thought it was about letters from journalists who were reporting from disputed border zones and started reading the book without reading the back cover, to my surprise it was nothing of the sort. I only got through about 3/5's of the book as it was just so awfully boring that I had to give up. The story is about a 17 year old wet kid from Suffolk who goes to Netherlands in search of an old lady who met his father during the war, she's dieing and retells stories of the war. The war time stories are actually ok but the books narration from Jacob is frankly embarrassing, he is so ...  Read the complete review