Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict

Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Marie Benedict seems to be gathering, one by one, some of the strongest women who ever lived to tell their stories. Lady Clementine (rhymes with Josephine) is her latest historical fiction that tells the story of the woman behind the man, in this case, Winston Churchill.

Clemmie was more than just a wife. She was her husband’s partner in all ways. The burden of her job as supportive wife came at a high cost: her nerves were often shattered, and she could not be the mother she wanted to be when having to fulfill the needs of her husband, most especially during two world wars.

She was so ambitious that she might have been the prime minister of England herself had she been born in a different time. Much like American first ladies have their niche while in the White House, Clementine found her own ways to be supportive of her husband’s mission. During WW II, for example, she completely reformed the nasty air raid shelters into something more hygienic and safer for those who needed shelter for as much as 14 hours a day from the bombings.

Marie Benedict’s subjects don’t always interest me, but her writing draws me in each time. While I tire of world war books, I found a different perspective of the war from one who lived through it.



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