Harris Anstey - When I First Held You - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Silence tore them apart. Can the truth bring them back together?" Marvellous Lesley Pearse" A hauntingly beautiful novel" Imogen Clark" Gripping heart rending and extremely satisfying Katie Fforde In 1960s Glasgow anti - nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors squat is raided and many including Jimmy are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers home give up their baby and learn to live with her grief. More than half a century later Judith's Mending Shop restores broken treasures just as Judith herself has been bound back together by her late much - missed partner Catherine. But her tranquillity is shattered when Jimmy so different and yet somehow the same reappears yearning to unpick the painful past. Realising they each know only half of the other's story Jimmy and Judith finally break the silence that tore apart what might have been their family. Amid heartbreak and hope how much can now be mended?
Title: When I First Held You
Author(s): Harris Anstey
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781662503863
Pages: 316 Pages
Publication Date: 1/24/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction