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The Railwayman's Wife
Ashley Hay
Atria
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
Featuring: Anikka Lachlan; Roy McKinnon; Frank Draper
272 pages
ISBN: 1501112171
EAN: 9781501112171
Kindle: B010MH1K3G
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
Amidst the strange, silent aftermath of World War II, a
widow, a poet, and a doctor search for lasting peace and
fresh beginnings in this internationally acclaimed,
award-winning novel. When Anikka Lachlan’s husband, Mac, is killed in a railway
accident, she is offered—and accepts—a job at the Railway
Institute’s library and searches there for some solace in
her unexpectedly new life. But in Thirroul, in 1948, she’s
not the only person trying to chase dreams through books.
There’s Roy McKinnon, who found poetry in the mess of war,
but who has now lost his words and his hope. There’s Frank
Draper, trapped by the guilt of those his medical treatment
and care failed on their first day of freedom. All three
struggle to find their own peace, and their own new story. But along with the firming of this triangle of friendship
and a sense of lives inching towards renewal come other
extremities—and misunderstandings. In the end, love and
freedom can have unexpected ways of expressing
themselves.
The Railwayman’s Wife explores
the power of beginnings and endings, and how hard it can
sometimes be to tell them apart. Most of all, it celebrates
love in all its forms, and the beauty of discovering that
loving someone can be as extraordinary as being loved yourself.
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