“SUNSET VIEW” takes the reader to Blackpool, England, a popular resort town, in 1965. It is primarily centered on the lives of 2 families, the Hendys and the Jarvises. Doreen Jarvis, a young middle-aged woman, has plans to expand from the modest boarding house she and her husband Norman have operate...
This is the second Margaret Thornton novel I've read. Nor will it be the last. She's one of those writers with a sure skill in creating characters who become real to the reader. Indeed, so much so that they seem to leap out of the pages and make the story of which they're a part even more compelling...
I was 3 chapters into reading "Looking at the Moon" and already I was in love with the way the novel was shaping up. The setting is a doctor's office in Blackpool (England) during the latter part of 1941. A young woman (Doreen Miller), agitated and worried about the condition of her little brother T...