Wild Strawberries [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Emma Blair (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2001

Maizie and her husband, Sam, run the Paris Hotel in Coverack, Cornwall, but when World War II starts Sam joins up and leaves Maizie to run the hotel. Struggling to keep the hotel going, Maizie is further troubled when she takes on Rosemary and Bobby, two evacuees from Plymouth but after a difficult start the children settle in and Maizie, who wants a family, enjoys their company. Her happiness is further enhanced with the arrival of the attractive Christain Le Gall, a French soldier wounded at Dunkirk, who comes to stay at the hotel whilst on leave. But this happiness doesn't last - the explosion of a bomb causes physical and emotional devastation and Maizie discovers that Sam, a rough man who beats her, has also been abusing Rosemary. Maizie, torn between her duty as a wife and her love for Christian, realizes she is unable to leave Sam and tells Christian she is unable to run away with him. Christian, heartbroken, returns to France. But Maizie, now pregnant, still loves him. Will she find happiness again?

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About the Author

Emma Blair was born in Glasgow and now lives in Devon. She is the author of twenty novels, including SCARLET RIBBONS and FLOWER OF SCOTLAND (both shortlisted for Romantic Novelist of the Year Award). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 488 pages
• Publisher: Charnwood (Large Print) (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708992277
• ISBN-13: 978-0708992272
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,364,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book set in World War Two Cornwall, March 14, 2004

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M. E. Newell (Georgia, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild Strawberries (Hardcover)

Maizie Blackare is a woman living in Cornwall, running the family hotel while her husband Sam is in the merchant navy. Christian Le Gall is stilling recovery wounds he recieved at Dunkirk. He decideds to travel to the Hotel Paris where he meets Maizie and dispite her being married these two lonely people fall in love.
"Wild Strawberries" by Emma Blair, is different to the location, but the story line is pretty much the same. As before Ms. Blair gives good the reader a good pace to the book that holds the reader interest. The characers and plot are interesting,wanting the reader find out what happens in the end. Overall "Wild Strawberris is a good book that Ms. Blair fans or newcomers will want to read.