![]() ![]() Into the Unknown will be published by Tirgearr Publishing on 5th May. Will the horrors of total war bring Kate and Charlie together or tear them apart? ![]() Private conflicts and personal doubts are soon overshadowed. Should he allow his heart to rule his head and fall for a nineteen-year-old Irish girl while there is a war to fight? But when he meets Kate his resolve is shattered. Should she ignore all the warnings and get involved with a ladies man whose life will be in daily danger?Ĭharlie Butler has no intention of getting involved with a woman. When she meets Flight Lieutenant Charlie Butler sparks fly, but he is a notorious womaniser. Into this turmoil steps Kate Sheridan, newly arrived from Ireland to live with her aunt and uncle, and look for work. London on 3 September 1939 is in upheaval. I’m currently organising a blog tour for Lorna Peel with her historical romance novel, Into the Unknown. ![]()
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![]() ![]() However, there were moments when the writing seemed a little clumsy, with perhaps too many different story lines being thrown in together. Little visual details are often noted about the characters, helping to create pictures in your mind of each one. We meet a wide range of characters through the story as the quiet warden Alice faces up to the challenges of mothering eight very different girls, from loud and loose Marion, pacifist Georgina, bullying Gwennan through to introverted little Hester. ![]() ![]() However, even here they find that they aren't protected from the hostilities, and the tragedies that enter their lives serve to bring them closer together as a make-shift family. Mostly the horrors and tragedies of war seem very distant to the girls as they struggle more with the horrors of sharing bath water, their blisters from hard farm work and living in a cold, isolated farmhouse. ![]() She has to find a way to support herself and her young son, Edward, so she applies for the post of Warden on a farm, taking care of a group of young women working as Land Girls. Summary: Slightly clumsy, yet still endearing novel that transports you back to the hardships and joys of World War Two Land Girls.ĭuring the Second World War many women in Britain were seeing their men leave them to go and fight, but Alice Todd finds herself abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. ![]() ![]() For many readers, it inhabits the same nostalgic region as Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, both of which drew inspiration from it. In youth my wings were strong and tireless,īut my weary wings could not follow my vision-Ī whiff of quaintness, of simpler days gone by, surrounds the popular impression of Spoon River Anthology. “As one of your poets has put it,” the pontiff explained, the church required “‘strong and tireless wings’ combined with the wisdom of one who ‘knows the mountains.’” How many of the bishops, literate as they might be, recognized that Francis was quoting a gnomic (and faintly Nietzschean) poem from Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, a book that happened to be celebrating its centennial that year? During his 2015 visit to the United States, Pope Francis told an audience of American bishops that the Catholic Church should seek to fuse the “epic struggle” of the pioneers with the “homely wisdom” of the settlers. ![]() |