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Praise for The Girl From World’s End and The War Widows:
‘A beautiful, almost poetically-written tale of love and tragedy in the Yorkshire Dales mainly set during the Second World War. The characters are real flesh and blood and the reader shares their ups and downs with genuine empathy.’
Maureen Lee, bestselling author of Mother of Pearl.
‘An epic tale of hardship and tragedy straddling the Second World War.’
The Bookseller
‘A heartwarming read.’
Closer
‘A compelling story, capturing the spirit of time and place.’
Lancashire Evening Post
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Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and forget about everything. Evie, struggling to come to terms with the concept of death, just wants her Daddy to come home for Christmas.
Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and forget about everything. Evie, struggling to come to terms with the concept of death, just wants her Daddy to come home for Christmas.
But Wintergill is far from the quiet refuge that they expected. Devastated by Foot and Mouth, Nik Snowden and his Mother Nora are facing a bleak future. The two are at loggerheads. Nora has had enough of the hard life but Nik wants to keep the house and lands that have been in his family for generations.
But Nik is not the only one attached to the house. In the distant past, a terrible tragedy occurred and ever since a restless spirit has haunted the land, seeking a child that once was lost. Through the generations, the ghost has brought misery and pain to bear on the inhabitants. But where one spirit has sown despair, others have sought to protect the children of Wintergill.
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Kate, a widow, is anticipating the first anniversary of her husband's death on Christmas Eve with dread and decides to escape to a holiday rental in the Yorkshire Dales. She is drawn to the place because she recalls happy childhood memories with her grandmother who lived in the area. The holiday rental is owned by Nik, a divorced farmer who is bitterly counting the cost of foot and mouth disease in terms of his farm's future viability and his friend's recent suicide. But as Kate and Nik each contemplates the future, events occur which force them join forces to unravel the secrets of the past so that they might avert further tragedy in their lives.
The story is unusual because it is told from multiple points of view with numerous time shifts - i.e. we hear from Kate, her eight year old daughter Evie, Farmer Nik, his mother Nora as well as a few ghosts and several generations of Nik's ancestors who lived in the old farm before him. The tale is brillliantly woven to create a vivid tapestry of a family which thrived throughout good times and bad and as each person's story is told, another little piece of a mysterious jigsaw is slotted into place.
Leah Fleming describes each snapshot in time so deliciously and realisitically that I felt as though I'd climbed into the book and was living it. Having to put the book down between readings was really quite difficult!
It's a feel-good book although I did shed a few tears in places and I would totally recommend it as a unique work of art in its own right.
Set in a little village on a farm at christmas, heartbreak and loss mixed with love and happiness, past... Read more
The story line was easy to follow & I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Read more
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