A Review of "Nice Girl's Don't" by Sue Barnard
The timing of the release of this book is appropriate as it touches on the topic of World War I which is very fitting in the 100th year anniversary of the beginning of that conflict. After the death of his grandfather, Carl inherited letters and and an object that aroused his curiosity about his family history and he realised that there was much about his family that his grandfather had never revealed. Carl found unexpected help from his local librarian, Emily, and a regular visitor to the library, Mr. Sykes, an older gentleman with some experience of tracing family trees. The story is set in 1982 and makes us realise how far computer use has evolved in the past thirty two years as the main characters try to solve the mysteries of past family members and unwittingly discover more shocking secrets as they progress. Without the use of genealogy websites they attempt to trace the complicated lives of Carl's ancestors back before the beginning of the first world war. While ass