Cardigan Bay

Name: Cardigan Bay
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: John Kerr
ISBN: 9781407956664

Author: John Kerr

Narrator: Penelope Freeman

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 08/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

When Major Charles Davenport is evacuated to England, to recuperate from a battle wound received at Tobruk, a letter is awaiting him from his wife in London informing him that she wants a divorce. Mary Kennedy is a young Irish-American who has moved to her grandparents’ cottage in Ireland to mourn the loss of her husband and child. Participating in a Red Cross morale-building effort, she corresponds with a young British soldier, but his letters cease abruptly. Determined to learn what has become of him she makes her way to the army hospital in Sussex where she meets his commanding officer, Major Davenport. Thus begins a love story, carried out almost entirely by letter, set against the dramatic events of WWII.

About John Kerr

John Kerr was
trained as a clinical psychologist at New York University. He is an editor at the
Analytic Press, a scholarly press specializing in works on psychoanalysis, and
was coeditor and a contributor to Freud
and the History of Psychoanalysis. He divides his time between Boston and
New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on February 24, 2015

This is a story of war and intrigue , of loss , and love and it is so well written . I was lured in right from the beginning as I was drawn to the two characters who are at the center of the novel. Mary Kennedy moves from Boston back to Ireland, her place of birth. She is incredibly sad after enduri......more

Goodreads review by Gene on November 25, 2020

Excellent WWII story. Great historical fiction!......more

Goodreads review by Polly on February 19, 2015

Well put-together book about traditional love in the setting of World War II. Mary and Charles fall in love firstly through letters to each other, then circumstances separate them. While Mary is in Ireland dealing with the IRA and German spies, Charles is heavily involved in the logistics of landing......more

Goodreads review by Gretchen on January 30, 2013

Very vivid sense of place - I usually don't like a lot of description but this author manages to place you right into the setting without wasting words. The love story builds slowly (too slowly at times) and is very traditional.......more