THE GIRL WHO DISAPPEARED BY JAMES LINGARD
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Summary:
Britain in the 1930s.
Emily falls passionately in love with working class Walter, despite fierce opposition from her class conscious father. She sees marriage as a partnership of equals and resolves to elope to escape such a male dominated society.
Emily’s actions will see her struggle to survive the subsequent devastation brought about by the war, as she and her four year old son are thrown into the midst of danger and death. The family experience rationing and the terror of bombing. Their air raid shelter is destroyed by a direct hit.
When Walter volunteers for the army, Emily and her son are evacuated to a rat infested cottage in a farming community near Hebden Bridge. The war changes Walter into an efficient army officer who demands to be obeyed. Emily worries that she might have a rival for his affections. How can she restore their loving relationship?
The Girl Who Disappeared is a moving love story about one woman’s enduring resilience, a story full of quiet humour and surprising twists and turns.
MY REVIEW
Wow! What a good book I’ve read to day. A very well written story that I’m very happy to recommend.
Emily lives in Halifax Yorkshire with her mother and strict father. But Emily is in love and is going to get married on her twenty-first birthday. Her father has forbidden her to marry Walter Lingard. He makes it very clear to Emily that if you marry that man, you leave this house for good never to return. Never. Do you understand me? he boomed. He’s a wicked father with a cane, but Emily is now a grown woman, he can’t use it on her anymore.
Emily loves her boyfriend and gets married in secret and sails on her honeymoon to America, but her father is looking for her. A bombing of war is about to start that’s quite frightening.
A mixture of topic of scenes, built up slowly and nicely that I thoroughly enjoyed reading.
An excellent story for book clubs to discuss all moving scenes, with things happening along the way that I didn’t think about these plots would take place, so I was taken by surprise as the plots unfolded.
MY THANKS
I would like to thank Faye Rogers @ Fayerogerspr for sending me this paperback to read and review and to take part in the blog tour
Author Information
James Lingard – educated at Dulwich College and University College London – became a leading City of London solicitor who specialized in banking law and insolvency.
A former Council Member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and of the European Association of Insolvency Practitioners, he became a Judicial Chairman of the Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal.
He was the founding President of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and also became Chairman of the Joint Insolvency Examination Board and of the Banking Law and the Insolvency Law Sub Committees of the City of London Law Society.
He is the original author of Lingard’s Bank Security Documents (LexisNexis Butterworths) now in its 7th edition and a number of other legal books. More recently, he has written Britain at War 1939 to 1945 (Author House) and now THE GIRL WHO DISAPPEARED.
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