This book isn’t for those who love to ready very fast and prefer racy read; in patches it is quite slow when the author delves in describing the English countryside, the seasons, recipes, etc. Though the story stems out of war circumstances but still it isn’t a war fiction, rather it depicts how war forces the exodus of civilian mass, make people stranger from their own countries, and so on. All in all, the book is about ramification of war on the lives of common people. The story is about a German family who are struggling against the rising Nazism. Jack and his wife Sadie and their toddler daughter Elizabeth are Jews. They have succeeded in running way from Germany to enter England as refugees in 1939. As they land in Britain, they are handed a list. This is the list mentioned in the title: a list of things to do to become the ideal Englishman. Jack takes this list to his heart. From there, starts his journey of trying to become the perfect English gentleman. Jack's att...
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