- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse.com (11 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595524117
- ISBN-13: 978-0595524112
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,682,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Katie was a shy and sensitive lass when she was a young girl living in Scotland, and when her father died her mother took to America to live with her cousins in Louisiana. When war broke out in 1861 between the north and south, Katie moved to New Orleans, where she found love and intrigue and danger-after meeting the dashing and handsome Captain Clark Boyd who's loyalty lay with the south rather than marriage.
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"Katie Cameron", the author's second novel, is a historical romance, the story of a girl born in Inverness, Scotland in 1845 to a Scottish father and French American mother. Shortly after the untimely death of her much loved father, Katie is taken by her mother, Isabelle, to live with close relatives in her native Louisiana just before the outbreak of the Civil War there in 1861.
The fast moving tale details the many trials and tribulations faced by this young and vulnerable woman during a thirteen year period in America, initially in the wartorn south, notably in New Orleans and latterly in the north in Boston. It narrates the joys and anguishes of her relationships with the dashing Clark Boyd and with Frank Dempster, both of them Army officers but one with the Confederacy and the other with the Union. Love, marriage and motherhood are all deeply affected by the four year war which the author has researched assiduously and through visits to the area.
Whilst life for Katie Cameron settles down significantly following her decision to return to Scotland and Inverness with her young son, Brett, it remains far from smooth. She is destined to meet the kind Dr Robert Taylor but there are episodes of passion and pathos still inextricably linked with her former life in America as the story nears its conclusion.
Fiona McDonald's style and language is short and sharp, giving this quick and easy read an almost journalistic feel, unusual in a romantic novel. The true underlying nature of the characters is left largely to the reader's imagination, making it seem as if the book is in fact a film. Indeed, the author affirms that her writing is often inspired by seeing the characters as if in screenplay. This sometimes means that, particularly during the battle scenes and their aftermath, the action moves swiftly from character to character and situation to unrelated situation in short, quickfire and successive paragraphs. However, the story never fails to hold the reader's interest in a sound and gripping tale. There is a useful appendix detailing the main events of the Civil War.
The author's first novel, "Gunfire", a western, was poublished in 2003.
The fast moving tale details the many trials and tribulations faced by this young and vulnerable woman during a thirteen year period in America, initially in the wartorn south, notably in New Orleans and latterly in the north in Boston. It narrates the joys and anguishes of her relationships with the dashing Clark Boyd and with Frank Dempster, both of them Army officers but one with the Confederacy and the other with the Union. Love, marriage and motherhood are all deeply affected by the four year war which the author has researched assiduously and through visits to the area.
Whilst life for Katie Cameron settles down significantly following her decision to return to Scotland and Inverness with her young son, Brett, it remains far from smooth. She is destined to meet the kind Dr Robert Taylor but there are episodes of passion and pathos still inextricably linked with her former life in America as the story nears its conclusion.
Fiona McDonald's style and language is short and sharp, giving this quick and easy read an almost journalistic feel, unusual in a romantic novel. The true underlying nature of the characters is left largely to the reader's imagination, making it seem as if the book is in fact a film. Indeed, the author affirms that her writing is often inspired by seeing the characters as if in screenplay. This sometimes means that, particularly during the battle scenes and their aftermath, the action moves swiftly from character to character and situation to unrelated situation in short, quickfire and successive paragraphs. However, the story never fails to hold the reader's interest in a sound and gripping tale. There is a useful appendix detailing the main events of the Civil War.
The author's first novel, "Gunfire", a western, was poublished in 2003.
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