Winny has high hopes for a better life in Canada, but is instead faced with a harsh reality. Barnardo’s Barkingside Home for Girls where she learns she will be sent to Canada. At the age of fifteen in 1936, she ran away from home and her abusive stepfather.
The story sees a ninety-seven year old Winnifred looking back on her her past as her great-grandson asks about her family tree. Graham is also the author of The Forgotten Home Child. The story picks up six years later with war on the horizon as Molly is a reporter at her local paper and will need to confront what happened in her past and try to make things right. Molly and Max find themselves caught in the middle of the tensions between the Jewish and Irish communities. However, there is something going on over seas and Hitler’s hateful ideas are making their way to Toronto.
She finds joy watching baseball with her friend Hannah and sneaking glances at her handsome older brother. Molly Ryan has dreams of becoming a journalist in 1933, but is currently working whatever job she can during the Depression. Letters Across the Sea is a story that takes place around World War II. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand.Ĭome from Away is a mesmerizing story of love, shifting allegiances, and second chances, set against the tumultuous years of the Second World War.If You Like Genevieve Graham Books, You’ll Love… When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. He is someone else entirely - someone not to be trusted. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamored by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumors swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. The talented Genevieve Graham once again calls upon a fascinating true story in Canadian history to remind us that beneath the. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. From the best-selling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War.
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