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Creating fictional people since 1989.
Most kids have an active imagination. My imagination has stayed strong into adulthood, and I’ve funneled that creativity into a successful writing career. I write history, both fiction and nonfiction, because although your school history classes may have been boring, the past is not. My goal is to bring the past to life in all its myriad of colors.
Reviewed by Bernadette Longu for Readers' Favorite
Adjustment Year by Melina Druga is the conclusion to the author's World War 1 trilogy, which covers the period of history during the First World War and just after. The focus is on Henrietta, "Hettie", now pregnant, and her struggle to return to normal civilian life afterward. The novel encompasses the lives of those who came back from the war, those who had stayed behind, and how the world had changed but not so much in that the women who returned from war found themselves still being the property of their husbands although they had voting rights and had served as nurses, etc., during the war. The author uses characters from two families; one ordinary working-class family and one with affluence who thinks and acts as if they are better than anyone else and treats those who work for a living like servants.
The characters in Adjustment Year take readers by their hand and lead them through the trials and tribulations of returning to normal society and the problems that are part of each of the characters' lives as they adjust to being back at home and living normal lives. They try to adjust to marriages, changes in the world, women not being married being able to work and earn their own money, and not being beholden to men for support and money. Melina Druga brings the 1920s to life in a romantic but clear way and holds the reader's attention from the first page to the twist on the very last page. I found this book to be quite an eye-opener. It was most interesting to learn what people had to go through to re-acclimatize themselves to everyday life. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
