- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: YouWriteOn.com (8 Dec 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1849231729
- ISBN-13: 978-1849231725
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,444,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mo Mozart, with her GP husband Jack and two young children, moves from Crystal Palace to rural Norfolk in pursuit of the perfectly balanced lifestyle. Their idyllic farmhouse, though, holds dark family secrets that date back decades - to when Dottie Hammond moved from London to become a World War Two Land Girl on a farm surrounded by Norfolk's RAF/USA Airbases.
Mo's happy country life starts to unravel when Jack is accused of abusing a young patient, she starts having flashbacks to the 1940s and her daughter, Lily, develops an imaginary friend from the same era. With help from both town and country friends, experiences of past and present, Dottie's wartime diary and a community production of Hamlet, Mo uncovers the unresolved events that have haunted the village of Great Haddeston for seventy years. In the process she sorts out her own complex family issues that revolve around Jack's adoption and his glamorous birth mother.
"Kindred Spirits" is the second Mo Mozart book; the first is "Blood and Water"
About the Author
Lucy McCarraher has written three novels, two self-help books, scripts for television and numerous articles and reviews for newspapers, magazines and journals. She is an expert in work-life balance, has been a consultant to a range of organisations and advised many individuals on the subject.
She has also worked as a tv script-editor, concept developer, researcher, producer and presenter; as a magazine publisher, book editor, writers' agent, ghost writer and theatre critic; and as a conductor on the Blackpool trams.
Lucy was born and has lived most of her life in London. She was brought up in Chelsea and, after spending nearly a decade in Australia, gradually moved south through London via Stockwell, Kennington, Peckham and Crystal Palace.
She has two adult sons and now lives in rural South Norfolk with her husband and two young daughters.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Posting a couple of reviews from readers who wanted to share their thoughts but don't do technology:
Reader 1.
Kindred Spirits - Lucy McCarraher, same author as Blood & Water. Came to our Book Club to talk about her book. I bought it, Lucy wrote in it.
One of those books difficult to put down. Fascinating stuff. Knowing the setting and in my case, knowing a little about the War made this unforgettable. Having read Blood & Water added to my enjoyment but I agree that it was not necessary to enjoy each book separately. Real characters with real emotions. I thought Dottie was a lovely character. And Emma. Lucy was very clever to get the way people talked in 1940, so different from the way we talk now. I will be passing this book on to a couple of friends who I believe will enjoy it.
Reader 2.
I have read your book, even in the early hours of long sleepless nights. Have thoroughly enjoyed every page - found it difficult to put down and I can relate to some of the wartime tales!
Reader 1.
Kindred Spirits - Lucy McCarraher, same author as Blood & Water. Came to our Book Club to talk about her book. I bought it, Lucy wrote in it.
One of those books difficult to put down. Fascinating stuff. Knowing the setting and in my case, knowing a little about the War made this unforgettable. Having read Blood & Water added to my enjoyment but I agree that it was not necessary to enjoy each book separately. Real characters with real emotions. I thought Dottie was a lovely character. And Emma. Lucy was very clever to get the way people talked in 1940, so different from the way we talk now. I will be passing this book on to a couple of friends who I believe will enjoy it.
Reader 2.
I have read your book, even in the early hours of long sleepless nights. Have thoroughly enjoyed every page - found it difficult to put down and I can relate to some of the wartime tales!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those, like me, who loved Blood and Water by Lucy McCarraher, here's more of the same, but even better. Mo, with her family, has now moved to Norfolk after buying a farmhouse. Though she has initial qualms about leaving London, everything in the garden should be lovely, but the house seems to be haunted and she's having to share her husband with his newly found, newly adoring, birth mother. All this is echoed in a local production of Hamlet that Mo is involved in. There's also a split narrative as a land girl's diary from the Second World War is recounted. However, past and present are brilliantly weaved by Lucy's flowing writing that will soon have you racing to get to the cracking climax.
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Mo Mozart, with her GP husband Jack and two young children, moves from Crystal Palace to rural Norfolk in pursuit of the perfectly balanced lifestyle. Their idyllic farmhouse, though, holds dark family secrets that date back decades - to when Dottie Hammond moved from London to become a World War Two Land Girl on a farm surrounded by Norfolk's RAF/USA Airbases.
Mo's happy country life starts to unravel when Jack is accused of abusing a young patient, she starts having flashbacks to the 1940s and her daughter, Lily, develops an imaginary friend from the same era. With help from both town and country friends, experiences of past and present, Dottie's wartime diary and a community production of Hamlet, Mo uncovers the unresolved events that have haunted the village of Great Haddeston for seventy years. In the process she sorts out her own complex family issues that revolve around Jack's adoption and his glamorous birth mother.
"Kindred Spirits" is the second Mo Mozart book; the first is "Blood and Water"
About the Author
Lucy McCarraher has written three novels, two self-help books, scripts for television and numerous articles and reviews for newspapers, magazines and journals. She is an expert in work-life balance, has been a consultant to a range of organisations and advised many individuals on the subject.
She has also worked as a tv script-editor, concept developer, researcher, producer and presenter; as a magazine publisher, book editor, writers' agent, ghost writer and theatre critic; and as a conductor on the Blackpool trams.
Lucy was born and has lived most of her life in London. She was brought up in Chelsea and, after spending nearly a decade in Australia, gradually moved south through London via Stockwell, Kennington, Peckham and Crystal Palace.
She has two adult sons and now lives in rural South Norfolk with her husband and two young daughters.
Mo Mozart, with her GP husband Jack and two young children, moves from Crystal Palace to rural Norfolk in pursuit of the perfectly balanced lifestyle. Their idyllic farmhouse, though, holds dark family secrets that date back decades - to when Dottie Hammond moved from London to become a World War Two Land Girl on a farm surrounded by Norfolk's RAF/USA Airbases.
Mo's happy country life starts to unravel when Jack is accused of abusing a young patient, she starts having flashbacks to the 1940s and her daughter, Lily, develops an imaginary friend from the same era. With help from both town and country friends, experiences of past and present, Dottie's wartime diary and a community production of Hamlet, Mo uncovers the unresolved events that have haunted the village of Great Haddeston for seventy years. In the process she sorts out her own complex family issues that revolve around Jack's adoption and his glamorous birth mother.
"Kindred Spirits" is the second Mo Mozart book; the first is "Blood and Water"
About the Author
Lucy McCarraher has written three novels, two self-help books, scripts for television and numerous articles and reviews for newspapers, magazines and journals. She is an expert in work-life balance, has been a consultant to a range of organisations and advised many individuals on the subject.
She has also worked as a tv script-editor, concept developer, researcher, producer and presenter; as a magazine publisher, book editor, writers' agent, ghost writer and theatre critic; and as a conductor on the Blackpool trams.
Lucy was born and has lived most of her life in London. She was brought up in Chelsea and, after spending nearly a decade in Australia, gradually moved south through London via Stockwell, Kennington, Peckham and Crystal Palace.
She has two adult sons and now lives in rural South Norfolk with her husband and two young daughters.
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