Author: | Dawn Pitts | ISBN: | 9781370902903 |
Publisher: | Dawn Pitts | Publication: | July 28, 2016 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
Author: | Dawn Pitts |
ISBN: | 9781370902903 |
Publisher: | Dawn Pitts |
Publication: | July 28, 2016 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
Language: | English |
Book three of the series of historical fiction begins in 1910 and follows the lives of the families in the small towns of Yarloop and Dwellingup as they watch the newly formed nation of Australia being drawn into a war that tears families and towns apart bringing out the best and the worst of human nature.
Doctor Ambrose Whittiker, a descendant of the first settlers, who landed on Cockburn Sound in 1833, takes his wife, Sarah and son, Ambrose junior (AJ) from Fremantle, to live in Dwellingup a small settlement on the edge of the Darling Range to care for the families moving into the forest working in the mills that have developed to cut timber for export all over the world.
The horror of Gallipoli and the trenches of France is lightened by the romance of Jack Cummings and Sister Josephine Smith, a nurse, while continuing the experiences of life in a small mill town filled with the hopes and dreams of young men and women.
This novel follows the next generation of this family saga as young AJ matures to the man his father would have been proud of had he not met with an accident. AJ meets Charlotte Jones and together, they, with other family members, take the reader into the drama and conflict that touches all those in an era of unrest, forming a Bridge Across The Years.
Book three of the series of historical fiction begins in 1910 and follows the lives of the families in the small towns of Yarloop and Dwellingup as they watch the newly formed nation of Australia being drawn into a war that tears families and towns apart bringing out the best and the worst of human nature.
Doctor Ambrose Whittiker, a descendant of the first settlers, who landed on Cockburn Sound in 1833, takes his wife, Sarah and son, Ambrose junior (AJ) from Fremantle, to live in Dwellingup a small settlement on the edge of the Darling Range to care for the families moving into the forest working in the mills that have developed to cut timber for export all over the world.
The horror of Gallipoli and the trenches of France is lightened by the romance of Jack Cummings and Sister Josephine Smith, a nurse, while continuing the experiences of life in a small mill town filled with the hopes and dreams of young men and women.
This novel follows the next generation of this family saga as young AJ matures to the man his father would have been proud of had he not met with an accident. AJ meets Charlotte Jones and together, they, with other family members, take the reader into the drama and conflict that touches all those in an era of unrest, forming a Bridge Across The Years.