‘A story of motherhood, music, loss and redemption, set in the latter part of WWI and post-Armistice.’– Lucia’s War [ About the Book ] London, 1949. Opera singer Lucia Percival is due to perform her last concert. But she has no intention of going onstage. A terrible secret from the First World War has finally…
‘Courage can be found in the unlikeliest of places’– A Single Thread [ About the Book ] It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to…
Paris in the Dark ~ Kit Cobb is back Welcome to the City of Lights Adventure awaits Drawing on his own experience as a war veteran and news reporter, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Robert Olen Butler has created a thriller described as a ‘page-turner with an unmistakable literary quality’ Paris in the Dark is the fourth Kit…
Today I have a review of the truly poignant novel Last Christmas in Paris. Written by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb and just published by Harper Collins/William Morrow, I highly recommend for all lovers of historical fiction and the wartime years.
Recently I came across a local Cork Writer, Aedin Johnston, who has written a book about a topic very close to her heart, entitled Finding James. Her Granduncle, James O’ Connor was a Cork man who was called to the Colours in August 1914. He nearly made it to the end of the war but died…