WAR BONDS Reading Group questions
Here are a few questions to get the conversation going. Send an email to the link below if you have a question to add to the list.
Would you have been able to do as millions of British parents did, sending their children off to live with strangers? Would you have been tempted to bring them back to the city before the war ended?
What might some of the longterm effects been for the relocated children? Could there have been positive outcomes?
Beryl has just met Jack when they share a kiss at her doorstep. What do you think made her so vulnerable and open to this intimacy with him?
Consider the relationship between Reinhard and Annalise. What causes Reinhard to be so willfully blind to her machinations?
Describe the ways Colin and Hugo mature throughout the book. How did the losses each suffer shape their love and regard for one another? How did the adults in their lives help them manage their deep worry and sense of loss?
Why do you think Jack grows so attached, so quickly, to Beryl?
Gordon has a hint that Annalise is interested in him from the first moment they meet. Why doesn’t he keep his distance? Is there another way he could have handled the demands she makes of him or were the benefits he gained too precious to risk?
What roles did everyday Poles play in supporting Gordon and the other POWs during their internment and escape?
Did Wills do the right thing in staying in France to work with the Resistance? Was this fair to Ivy and Hugo?
Do you believe Annalise’s heart has truly changed and softened as a result of her experience at the end of the war? Or is she still an opportunist?
Why does Gordon choose to walk away from Mila?
Name the ways Rev. Dowd puts people over doctrine throughout the novel.
