The Canadians Series
Three full-length novels – The Chalky Sea, The Alien Corn and The Frozen River – following the fortunes of Jim Armstrong, a young Canadian soldier in the Second World War, and those of the women who impact his life.
Three tales that tell the epic drama of war and its impact on ordinary people – not only while it’s happening, but for the years to follow.
In The Chalky Sea, war comes to a quiet English seaside town. Gwen is forced to confront the truth she has concealed about her past, her own suppressed emotions and her place in a now turbulent world. Canadian, Jim, battles with a bewildering and hostile environment, far removed from the farm he grew up on.
In The Alien Corn, after a hasty wartime marriage, war-bride Joan joins Jim in Canada but struggles to adapt to life on his remote farm in Ontario. Jim, haunted by his wartime experiences in Italy, Iingering feelings for a former lover, and the demands of the farm, begins to doubt his love for Joan.
And in The Frozen River English hairdresser, Ethel, alone after the death of her family and her wartime fiancé, visits her cousin, Joan, in rural Canada. Just as a promising new life seems within her grasp, her hopes for love and happiness are snatched away.
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