At the Water's Edge: A Novel
In this new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water’s Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman’s personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World...
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In this new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water’s Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman’s personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village. Madeline Hyde, a young socialite from P
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780812997897
ASIN: B00P5557I0
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
by Sara Gruen The prologue starts out with a sad situation. A young woman, Mairi, has lost her baby to stillbirth, and soon after learns that her husband, a soldier in WWII, is missing, presumed dead. How this ties in with the story to come will take some time to become clear, but the reveal was w...
I read this when I first moved to Scotland for my Master's as I thought the setting would give me a good introduction for my home for the next year.
Like most people, I loved Water for Elephants. I loved it so much that I could never read Ape House because I know how those expectations tend to kill the next book, no matter how hard the author tries. (Please feel free to tell me if you think I should reconsider that decision). By now, I figured e...
To get back in the good graces of his father, wealthy society-boy Ellis, his wife Madeleine and his best friend Hank decide to cross the ocean in the midst of World War II to prove the existence of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. Their journey isn´t at all what they expected and as time passes, Madel...
“The monster – if there was one – never revealed itself to me again. But what I had learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually hiding in plain sight.” And so concludes the most original story about World War II that I have ever read. There is something about life during WWII th...
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