An Edwardian story of love and hope in pre-war Cornwall - Helena Tregenza has a loving family and many talents but her blindness makes her an object of embarrassment, especially to her vivacious sister Lucy. While Elena struggles for a place in the world, and Lucy hesitates between her childhood sweetheart and dashing, arrogant Simon Robinson, their maid Maisie cannot even afford to marry her beau. And the First World War is looming . . . What will become of the Tregenza girls?
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Prolific Aitken returns to Edwardian Cornwall, specifically Penzance, in this story of two sisters, Helena and Lucy, and how they and their lives change. Due to a childhood fall, Helena is blind. Now a young woman, she spends her days mostly in her room, to avoid embarrassing her family. She plays the piano, but only what she already knows. Soon, though, strides are made in aiding the blind, such as the Braille method, which helps her enormously. Lucy is a few years younger, but flighty and vain. Their childhood friend James thinks he's in love with Lucy, and Lucy likes the idea of being loved. Helena, though, truly loves James, but her blindness prevents her from thinking about romance, or even her future. World War I seems to be the catalyst for growth in all their lives, both for good and for bad. Once again Aitken brings a crucial era to life, and weaves an absorbing tale. Maria Hatton
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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the grandaughter of a miner killed in the Levant mine disaster. She has had three novels published under her own names as well as various textbooks poems, stories, and plays.
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