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GATHER THE BONESA heart-wrenching historical fiction full of romance and mysteryA gripping historical mystery about grief, love and the hauntings of the past
The love stories of two women from different times connected by the secrets of an old diary … England 1923: After the loss of her husband during the Great War, grieving widow Helen Morrow and her young daughter move to England into the family estate her husband grew up in. They share the old house with Helen’s mother-in-law whom she never met and her husband’s reclusive cousin Paul. Helen wishes to finally get some answers as to what happened to the man she loved. Instead she finds an old diary of a woman who lived in the same house years ago and plunged the family into scandal before disappearing. Together with Paul, who is still caught in the shadows of the war, Helen is looking for answers and finds herself drawn to the tortured, quiet man. And at night she seems to sense a lingering presence she can’t quite explain. Soon Helen realises that she will not find peace or happiness until all the mysteries are solved. |
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Awarded an Honourable Mention in the 2012 RONE Award and a finalist in the 2012 Australian Romance Readers, the 2013 CRW Award of Excellence,2012 GDRWA Booksellers Best Award and the 2014 EPIC Awards.
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PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY REVIEW OF GATHER THE BONES May 2015
Likable, relatable characters augment Stuart’s compelling romantic ghost story set in post-WWI England. When war widow Helen Morrow visits the family home of Charlie, her deceased husband, for the first time, she is greeted by his resentful mother. The fact that Helen is Australian is enough to turn Lady Evelyn Morrow and all of her peers against the “colonial interloper,” even to the point of snubbing Helen and Charlie’s young child. Helen’s only ally is Charlie’s cousin Paul, a recluse recovering from his own war injuries and tortured by painful memories. When eerie manifestations begin to haunt the pair, it’s easy for Paul to dismiss them as nothing—or perhaps as symptoms of his battle-related trauma. But as ghosts from both the recent and the distant past encroach, Paul and Helen are drawn toward each other. A little predictability doesn’t detract from Stuart’s beautifully drawn story about the damage wrought by war and xenophobia, and the transcendent power of love. (BookLife)