[.ca] Out of the Blackout (ISBN 1933397322)

Search for a Lost Childhood:
I was impressed by this book. A young man, adopted by a loving couple, searches for his original family-he doesn't even remember his mother's name. Was his mother murdered? Barnard is truly skillful at describing characters-the obnoxious Simmenters could almost be from a Charles Dickens novel. The ending is a surprise. A very intriguing plot!

A masterpiece of suspense and story-building:
In "Out of the Blackout", Robert Barnard has woven a compelling story of how a boy,lost in the London blitz, finally discovered his roots in a long process of investigation and in so doing found some sense of liberation. We feel the slow unfolding of his knowledge of the past through clues which mark the story as a first class mystery. Only Barnard's "Masters of the House" comes close to matching this one in suspense. We passed the book from friend to friend all of whom felt the same as we did about it