Review: Mr. Churchill's Secretary
Gaby Meares
This was an enjoyable enough romp. However, I found the character’s formulaic: the goodies were very good and the baddies evil! MacNeal has obviously done a lot of research into what London was like at the outbreak of war, but I felt bombarded (not by the bombs) but by constant info-drops - too many minute details of every room and every piece of clothing - totally unnecessary.
I felt the story was trying to be something that it was not - a tightly crafted WW2/spy novel. Instead, I found the tone flippant, but lacking wit. It was way too long and needed a tight edit.