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Lavender, nicknamed La, is Smith’s latest heroine and the namesake of La’s Orchestra Saves the World. The novel is set in England during World War II, and the theme echoes the present day sentiment surrounding war and natural disasters. World War II and today’s crisis (Haiti, the unemployment rates, et al) are the condition bringing forth acts of human kindness and charity.

Each character that pours forth from Smith’s pen is singular in voice, style, appearance, background, and culture. La is so pitch perfect that the reader must remind her or himself that the author is a man who is not a detective, not an editor and not a scorned wife fleeing London for the countryside to escape the German bombs. Smith’s appropriated voices in his novels ring true not a phony note throughout the length of the book.

From the first page La gently lures the reader into her skin bringing with it the burbling, bubbling and ultimately boiling emotions and experiences as she creates a new life in the countryside After her marriage fails, the exact details are withheld here so as not to spoil the twists and turns, La retreats to her father-in-laws rambling house in Suffolk, a few hours outside of London. Leaving a busy city-life behind, La’s move brings her full circle to a rural town akin to where she grew up.

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