Ashcroft Jenny - Under The Golden Sun A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A "remarkable novel of family and love during a time of war "* Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun follows a soul - searching young woman who takes a leap of faith and discovers a place to call home and someone to share her heart. England 1941. The world is at war. London is under siege as the German blitz pounds the city without warning without mercy. Rose Hamilton did her part as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force until she was unfairly discharged following a tragic loss. Working as a secretary on a Devon farmland Rose is out of harm's way but she needs to contribute to something greater than herself to truly recover. Answering a newspaper advertisement for a companion to accompany an orphaned child to Australia Rose becomes enchanted with four - year - old Walter Lucknow. Shy imaginative and kind the boy lost his parents and has been living in near seclusion with his elder great aunt. As heir to a wealthy Australian cattle station Walter must return to his homeland and his mother's family. Leaving her own family and fianc Rose braves the long dangerous voyage across Pacific waters where war is imminent to see Walter safely home. But upon arrival Rose learns the truth about Walter's relationship to the Lucknows and the land he's supposed to inherit a truth that haunts the boy's Uncle Max a wounded pilot scarred inside and out. And as Max opens his heart up to Walter Rose is drawn to the man's strength and compassion finding herself torn between returning to England and staying with the child and man she's grown to love.* New York Times bestselling author Karen White
Title: Under The Golden Sun A Novel
Author(s): Ashcroft Jenny
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250793386
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/8/2023