Remembrance Day

Цена 9.86 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781847561039, 9781847561039

Автор

Издатель Avon

Страниц 464

Год выпуска 2009

Форма выпуска 130x200

Lest we forget! A poignant new tale from the English Maeve Binchy. As a new millennium dawns, 100-year-old Selma Bartley alone knows the secret behind a Yorkshire village"s refusal to honour its war dead. One summer"s day in 1913, a brush with tragedy irrevocably binds the fates of two families forever. A year later and West Sharland sends its men off to fight, leaving blacksmith"s daughter Selma Bartley to manage the family business - and her blossoming feelings for aristocrat Guy Cantrell. Their friendship tests social convention - but will also have unimaginable consequences before the War is over. When Guy is wounded in battle, his identical twin Angus - desperate for battlefield action but medically unfit - takes his place, unbeknownst to his brother. But, bitterly unprepared for war, Angus"s actions result in catastrophe for the Bartley family, hundreds of miles away in West Sharland. Overnight, the village turns against the Bartleys and urged on by her distraught parents, Selma...