The Forgotten Cottage
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American nurse tries to piece together her family's tangled history in this new historical novel from the acclaimed author of At Summer’s End.
England, 2014: Audrey Collins knows only two things about her beloved grandmother's past: She was born into nobility and she immigrated to America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inherits her gran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords and ladies. Instead, she finds an abandoned stone cottage perfectly preserved as Gran left it when she fled in 1941—ration book and all—and begins to uncover what secrets her family has been keeping.
France, 1915: Lady Emilie Dawes is working as a nurse on the Western Front, grateful to have escaped the restraints of her restrictive, privileged home life. But the independence she fought hard to earn is suddenly jeopardized when a familiar man shows up in one of her hospital beds. Facing him means facing her past, and the decisions she had made in fear. As the war rages around her, Emilie realizes she cannot continue running from who she is until she decides who she truly wants to be.
Over a hundred years apart, Audrey and Emilie each struggle to find purpose, love, and a place to call home in this enchanting family saga celebrating the courage of underestimated women—and the power a secret can hold across generations.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful read
Wonderful story of a granddaughter trying to find answers to her grandmother and in turn great grandmother past mysteries. Written in a dual timeline present and WW1. Inheriting her grandma house in England leads to many unanswered questions. Why did her grandmother suddenly leave England for the US? Why is the cottage like a time warp 1940’s? Who were her great grandparents? Is there really a Lord in her family? The story gives you a inside look at the life of a VAD, a volunteer nurse aid during WW1 and what harsh conditions the soldiers lived through.
Very moving story….a few tears…well written. Thank you #Goodreads for the book. All opinions are my own. #TheForgottenCottage